http://www.empsfm.org/education/index.asp?categoryID=26&ccID=126
Panel descriptions from last week's EMP Pop Conference at UCLA. Many sound like a cross between the most eggheady of doctoral dissertations, titles for extremely esoteric CD comps, and brilliant satire. Hard to tell which are just plain hooey and which are intended as straight up haha.
Examples:
"Work According to the Tamborazo Beat: Mexican Custodians' Music Listening Practices at a Southern California University"
"Go-Go Dancer and One-Hit Wonder: Toni Basil as Embodiment of Cultural Mobility in 60s Los Angeles"
"Highly Volatile: An Analysis of the Music Business Using Stock Option Volatility Theory"
"Hair, Hunger and Hollywood: Hear N' Aid and the Story of How Los Angeles Almost Saved Ethiopia"
"From the 'Ditch Trilogy' to The Suburbs: Canadians Rethinking U.S. Urban Musical Spaces"