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Brief interviews with audience members attending Saturday conference sessions. Due to technical problems, an additional interview with an unidentified informant was not recorded and a second interview with another unidentified informant was recorded without audio.

This panel explores the role of race, class, gender, and generation in shaping the multiple identities of participants in rock, as well as the ways that African American rock musicians have negotiated these identities within the context of the music industry, mainstream society, and African American communities. Video files consist of 29 sec. calibration pattern and 115 minutes of footage from main camera and two files totaling 115 minutes of simultaneously recorded footage from side camera.

This panel explores the status of rock in the 21st century—how rock is conceptualized/defined and how has it been transformed and reinterpreted; the role of African American musicians in this process; current trends in rock; the use of technology for creative, marketing and distribution approaches; the reception of Black rockers by the music industry, mainstream, underground, and international audiences; and African American communities, etc. Video files consist of 34 sec. calibration pattern and 134 minutes of footage from main camera and 133 minutes of simultaneously recorded footage from side camera.