Listen Up: Music You Should Change Your Mind About Right Now panel at RedCat
Jan 7th, 2008 by LA Brain Terrain
The RedCat and The Popular Music Project of the Norman Lear Center host a panel discussion entitled
” Listen Again: Music You Should Change Your Mind About Right Now”
The panel celebrates the publication of Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music, a collection of writings drawn from the Experience Music Project Pop Conference.
Panelists include Ann Powers (Los Angeles Times), Stephin Merritt (Magnetic Fields), R.J. Smith (Los Angeles magazine), Oliver Wang (Soul-sides.com, CSU-Long Beach) and Ernest Hardy (L.A. Weekly), among many others.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008, 8:30 pm. at the RedCat under the Disney Concert Hall $8 (students $4, CalArts & USC free)
Here’s the pitch
Ready, set, reinterpret! All pop music, past and present, is fair game on this night of live, rapid-fire music criticism as the members of a distinguished panel of writers, musicians and scholars have five minutes each to persuade the audience to reconsider a series of pop tracks—and find in them hitherto undiscovered pleasures.
