2009 EMP Conference
The annual EMP Pop Conference is always chock-full of fabulous people and presentations. Though I’ve never been to the event, I’ve always heard wonderful things from the many NYU scholars who’ve presented at the conference in the past. Also, I’ve always enjoyed the interesting titles of some of the papers, such as Cynthia Fuch’s oh-so-catchy 2004 talk, "Techniques that Freaks These Boys": Kelis, "Milkshake," and Meaning".
This year two NYU performance studies students with be presenting papers in an interesting session entitled “Suburban Soundscapes” moderated by Princeton University’s Daphne Brooks.
This year two NYU performance studies students with be presenting papers in an interesting session entitled “Suburban Soundscapes” moderated by Princeton University’s Daphne Brooks.
The first NYU performance studies alumni is Alexandra Vazquez, who is presenting a paper entitled "Notes on Vernacular Suburbanism". Alex is currently a Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University where she also teaches in American Studies and Theatre Studies . Her research and teaching interests include performance studies, Latino/a cultural studies, circum-Atlantic musical performance, transnational feminism, and critical race theory. She is currently working on a book-length study of the transnational performance circuits shared by Cuban and Afro-American women based on her 2006 dissertation “Instrumental Migrations: The Transnational Movements of Cuban Music” directed by Jose Munoz.
Christine Bacareza Balance will present a paper entitled "Tool Time, Party Time, and Where We Stick the Kids: Garages and Suburban Cultural Production". Balance is currently a CFD Fellow in American Culture at Vassar College and a PhD candidate in Performance Studies at NYU . Her teaching and research interests include: deviance theory, Asian American (specifically Pilipino American) cultural productions, and Pilipino popular culture. Next month she defends her dissertation (congrats!), “Intimate Aesthetics, Martial Cultures: Filipino American Contemporary Performance in California (1984-2006),” which looks at the aesthetic and theoretical links between three disparate sites: Filipino American turntablists, drug use among gay Filipino American men, and community-based theatre. Balance has also just been awarded the University of California’s President’s Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities.
My homegirl Jalylah Burrell, a former fellow editor at NYU’s short-lived journal Brownstone, will also be giving a paper entitled "Black Republicans: The HBCU in Popular Music"”
The EMP Pop Conference will take place April 19-22nd in Seattle, Washington.
Category: What is Performance Studies?
The "what is performance studies?" series is intended as an online resource for scholars, popular audiences, and newcomers to the field.
Christine Bacareza Balance will present a paper entitled "Tool Time, Party Time, and Where We Stick the Kids: Garages and Suburban Cultural Production". Balance is currently a CFD Fellow in American Culture at Vassar College and a PhD candidate in Performance Studies at NYU . Her teaching and research interests include: deviance theory, Asian American (specifically Pilipino American) cultural productions, and Pilipino popular culture. Next month she defends her dissertation (congrats!), “Intimate Aesthetics, Martial Cultures: Filipino American Contemporary Performance in California (1984-2006),” which looks at the aesthetic and theoretical links between three disparate sites: Filipino American turntablists, drug use among gay Filipino American men, and community-based theatre. Balance has also just been awarded the University of California’s President’s Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities.
My homegirl Jalylah Burrell, a former fellow editor at NYU’s short-lived journal Brownstone, will also be giving a paper entitled "Black Republicans: The HBCU in Popular Music"”
The EMP Pop Conference will take place April 19-22nd in Seattle, Washington.
Category: What is Performance Studies?
The "what is performance studies?" series is intended as an online resource for scholars, popular audiences, and newcomers to the field.
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