Coffee Talk with Peter Conroy, PhD: What is the Pop in Popular Music? Rock’n’Roll.

Peter Conroy is Professor Emeritus of French at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He taught there for 34 years and served as department chairman. He is a widely published literary scholar.

He and his wife Beverly have been seasonal residents of Door County since the mid 1980s. Before that, they were tent campers in Peninsula State Park starting in the late 1960s. Currently they own a summer home in Fish Creek.

Both Peter and Beverly have been long time and loyal supporters of MidSummers Music. Last year Peter delivered a paper for MSM on “Music and Revolution” which dealt with classical music and the political context in which he was composed and performed. This year he is following up with a paper on more modern music entitled “What is the ‘Pop” in Popular Music? Rock’n’Roll.”