My paper proposal was rejected from the 2009 EMP Pop Music Conference. The topic this year was "Dance Music Sex Romance: Pop and the Body Politic." My proposal dealt with lyrical content and the shift from an erotics of wounds to a neurotics coupled with the implications that this has for the perception of the body by both the lyricist and listener, specifically in the context of a live performance . I'm curious to see the accepted proposals once they are posted: I anticipate a lot of electronic music to be dealt with this year based off the fact that "dance music" are the first words of the conference title.
I ultimately choose to focus on "pop and the body politic" as dance music isn't my area of expertise. Instead, I looked at (for lack of a better term) the late 90s post-hardcore indie/emo of Saves the Day, Alkaline Trio, etc and trajectory of bands that have followed them.
There is always next year to try again, and this dog has put a smile on my face.
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