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061797-Sem News SEM Newsletter Published by the Society for Ethnomusicology Volume 38 • Number 4 • September 2004 SEM Soundbyte Rayna Green, 2004 By Timothy Rice, SEM President Seeger Lecturer By Tara Browner, University of How is SEM doing on diversity? California, Los Angeles At the annual meeting in Tucson, the President’s Roundtable on Friday after- Rayna Green, curator of the Ameri- noon is entitled “Diverse Voices.” Se- can Indian Program for the National lected panelists and the audience will Museum of American History at the be invited to raise questions about Smithsonian Institution, will present the whether and to what extent diverse Seeger lecture at the 49th annual SEM points of view are being heard at our meeting in Tucson. Dr. Green, a noted annual meetings and in our Journal, and folklorist, writer, and filmmaker, is prob- whether the Society’s membership is as ably most familiar to SEM members as diverse as the cultures, societies, indi- the producer of the groundbreaking viduals, and groups we study. In addi- Smithsonian Folkways recorded collec- tion, I want us to ask such questions as, tions, “Heartbeat: Voices of First Na- what can SEM do, as an institution, to tions Women” (1995), and “Heartbeat make itself more welcoming to diverse II” (1998). But she has also published points of view? What can SEM members widely on aspects of American folklore, do (and what have they been doing) to material culture, foodways, Native develop a diverse pool of applicants for American material culture, performing graduate and undergraduate study and identity, and Native American represen- for jobs in and outside the academy? tations and identity, greatly contribut- Born in Dallas, Texas, on July 18, What can be done to develop hiring ing to our understanding of the history 1942, Green is of Oklahoma Cherokee philosophies and institutional cultures and creative achievements of Native and German Jewish heritage, and while that seek “diverse voices”? What is North Americans. Continued on page 5 being done to develop and encourage local scholars and scholarship and make their achievements known to the mem- bership of SEM? th My sense is that these questions are SEM 50 Anniversary able to present some special panels matters of some urgency for SEM and Meeting: Atlanta 2005 with invited senior speakers. for many, and perhaps most, of our We are also planning some enjoy- members. The Council last year sup- By Bruno Nettl, , 2005 Program able and inspiring entertainment, in- ported devoting significant time at this Committee co-chair cluding a program both humorous and year’s meeting to questions of this sort, sentimental that should consist of songs, and the formation of a standing commit- The Program Committee for the 2005 poems, skits, stories, reminiscences meeting of SEM, in Atlanta (November about the “early days” (broadly de- tee called the “Crossroads Project on th Continued on page 3 17-20), which will celebrate the 50 fined), how they really were, how they anniversary of the founding of SEM, is now seem to us old-timers, and how busily at work planning some special younger colleagues conceive of them. In this issue... events to celebrate and commemorate Everything and anything from the 1 SEM Soundbyte this event and the early years of our Woody Guthrie mode to Blues Broth- 1 Rayna Green, 2004 Seeger Lecturer Society. The formal listing of themes ers, Cheech and Chong, and beyond. 1 2005 SEM 50th Anniversary Meeting will be published in the next Newslet- Let your imaginations run wild, and 4 Call for Proposals ter, but the history of SEM,and of ethno- send your ideas to me. There’s no 5 People & Places in Ethnomusicology musicology, and related subjects will be deadline, but I’d love to hear from you 9 Grants & Fellowships among them, and the committee urges soon. Please contact: Bruno Nettl, School 10SEM 2004 Conference Program members to be prepared to submit of Music, University of Illinois, 1114 23Society for Asian Music interesting abstracts and brilliant panel West Nevada, Urbana, IL 61801 USA; 23SEM Prizes proposals. 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