Earlier this month, Pop Conference 2024 offered three days of programming around the theme “Legacy! Legacy! Music Collections and Archives.” This year's PopCon featured keynote sessions with funk legend George Clinton, along with musical duo and Prince & the Revolution members Wendy & Lisa.
These keynotes are now available online. Watch George Clinton's session titled A Little Light Under the Sun: The Unstoppable Funky Genius and Cosmic Legacy of George Clintonin which the music icon discussed his personal and professional relationship with music history and archiving:
Meanwhile, Wendy & Lisa participated in a roundtable discussion titled A Seat at the (Mother) Ship: The Reclamation of Women's Stories in Parliament-Funkadelic, in which the duo discussed the central role women played in the influential collective. Watch the keynote below:
PopCon 2024 was held on the USC University Park campus March 7-9, hosted by the USC Thornton School of Music for the first time in its 22-year history, in partnership with the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
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