Going Coastal: Live and Mediated

Halifax welcomed me with a torrent of rain. Let's hope the climate at the conference, which starts today, is a little more accommodating. If it's anything like last year's IASPM-CA (International Association for the Study of Popular Music) conference in Guelph, I have nothing to worry about.

This years' conference is called Going Coastal: Peripheries and Centres in Popular Music, and the program looks great. I've been "recruited" (along with a few others, I hope?) to blog about the conference; to create some kind of lasting document for the ages or until the link over at the conference site breaks. Over the next few days, I'll be providing recaps of some of the panels and events at the conference.

Going Coastal: Peripheries and Centres in Popular Music

For anyone interested in following/contributing to the conference conversation a little more immediately - because all of a sudden, daily updates aren't immediate enough - I've also started a searchable feed on twitter...just look for the hash tag #goingcoastal

Off to the keynote...“Popular Music Studies: A Dialogue Across the Disciplines”