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SEM Newsletter Published by the Society for Ethnomusicology Volume 37 • Number 4 • September 2003 SEM Soundbyte “Body Special Events at Mi- Judith O. Becker, Meets the Bored” ami 2003 SEM, CMS, Seeger Lecturer 2003 By Ellen Koskoff, SEM President ATMI Joint Meeting By Deborah Wong, Secretary, SEM Board of Directors OK, let’s face it—over the past few By Alan Burdette and the Local years, our annual meeting/mating ritual, Arrangements Committee Judith O. Becker will present the Body Meets the Board, where the Board th The 2003 Annual Meeting of the Seeger lecture at the 48 annual SEM and the general membership come to- Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) will meeting in Miami. Her presentation, gether (usually over a dinner hour) to be heldBiscayne jointly, October Bay, 2-5,Miami with The titled “Trancers and Deep Listeners,” ask questions, raise issues, and air prob- College Music Society (CMS) and the will be taken from her forthcoming lems, has not been working. Finding an Association for Technology in Music book, Deep Listeners: Music, Emotion audience has been getting harder and Instruction (ATMI), and it promises to and Trancing (Indiana University Press, harder. Occasionally, to provide a quo- be an unforgettable gathering of minds in press). rum, people have been rounded up at Prof. Becker is especially known for and music. In addition, the participants the last minute as ringers . Last year, her scholarship on the musics of South- will enjoy the luxurious Inter-Continen- at Estes Park, only two people showed east Asia, particularly the gamelan mu- tal Hotel on the coast of Biscayne Bay in up (and even one Board member was sic of Central Java. More broadly, she is downtown Miami, an ideal location to missing)! known for her efforts to theorize music experience sights, tastes, and sounds Perhaps the topics we selected for as behavior and for her willingness to that make Miami like no other place in discussion have been too ho-hum? Per- search widely for the intellectual and the world. haps dinner with a friend or prospective methodological tools to yield new in- The programs of SEM, CMS, and employer was more important? Per- sights. haps, in this age of instant communica- ATMI will be excellent, with numerous papers, panels, lecture-recitals, perfor- Becker has a long and notable asso- tion, this meeting has outlived its useful- ciation with the University of Michigan ness? mances, demonstrations, workshops, and joint sessions relating to a multitude in Ann Arbor. Not only did she receive Last Spring the Board decided it was Continued on page 4 time to try something new. Starting this Continued on page 3 Fall we will sponsor a “President’s Roundtable,” where three or four mem- bers selected by the Board will discuss an important issue that is of major con- cern to our members. We have chosen the topic, “The SEM and Political Advocacy,” for our first Roundtable. Each speaker will have Continued on page 3 Inside this issue 1 SEM President’s Soundbyte 1 Special Events at Miami 2003 1 Judith Becker: 2003 Seeger Lecturer 5 SEM 2005, Atlanta 6 Grants & Fellowships 7 SEM Section News 7 Popular Music Center Receives Grant 8 People & Places in Ethnomusicology 9 Announcements 10 Call for Papers 12 Miami 2003 Conference Program 2003 Charles Seeger Lecturer, Professor Judith O. Becker (University of Michigan, 23 Conferences Calendar Ann Arbor), at the SEM Meeting in Estes Park, October 2002 (Photo by Daniel Neuman) 2 SEM Newsletter The Society for Ethnomusicology SEM Newsletter Guidelines and the SEM Newsletter Guidelines for Contributors Editor, SEM Newsletter • Send articles to the editor by e-mail or on a 3.5" disk with a paper copy. Microsoft Word Lee, Tong Soon is preferable, but other Macintosh or IBM-compatible software is acceptable. 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