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Volume 53, Number 1 Winter 2019 “It Was a Great Annual Meeting. And Yet…” Gregory Barz, SEM President This past year has provided us with significant opportuni- This past year has presented several issues and chal- ties to reflect on our core values as an academic society. I lenges for SEM not only to practice empathy, but perhaps remember, for example, seeing my husband sitting in the more importantly to listen and act as a Society with care front row at our General Membership Meeting last year in and empathy. I have observed disruptions caused by a few Denver. It was shortly after returning from SEM that Wil members of the Society. Other members have communi- suffered a major stroke from which he is slowly recover- cated to me their perceptions of an increase in negativity ing. I raise this personal aspect of my life in our public discourse. Negativity in social in order to highlight the collective efforts discourse makes it difficult for individuals of my colleagues on the SEM Board and with differing opinions to have meaningful at the SEM Business Office to support me conversations, and we afford each other and my work as President over the past precious little room to make mistakes. year. I continue to be astounded at the Our understanding from field research of compassion and resilience of many friends multiple angles on complex issues should and colleagues. For them I am grateful. translate to an appreciation of the com- You see, it was a significant revelation to plexity of social interaction within SEM. me when new to the Society that SEM is The Board and the Society will continue to run by groups of individuals, a Board, a address openly the rights, positionalities, Council, Committees, a Business Office and diverse concerns of its members. As I … Thankfully, SEM has never really been mentioned at our recent General Member- about the individual, the current president. ship Meeting, I continue to believe strongly in the democratic ideals and practices of For a variety of personal and professional SEM. reasons, I am also reminded of the tools we adopt in our approaches to field re- Clearly, some of us are angry, and oth- search as ethnomusicologists. One heavily ers in perceived positions of authority valued tool is the ability (and perhaps responsibility) to have experienced incidents of what NPR recently labeled listen empathically in a way that is frequently intimate and horizontal rage during the past few years. “[Frantz] Fanon individualized. Our IRBs, our reader’s reports, and our col- used the term horizontal violence to describe rage that leagues vetting our work encourage us to consider multiple was misdirected or misplaced” (Shankar Vidantam, NPR, ways of “hearing” a musical performance, a life history, or a “Why #MeToo Happened in 2017,” 7 February 2018). (I am story. Are there other stories in a community or in a culture grateful to AMS President Suzanne Cusick for helping me that need to be explored and represented in our work? The think through how this concept is affecting public discourse answer is frequently yes. We live in a challenging time, it in a variety of academic societies, not just our own.) And might seem, when we expect a certain degree of respect yet—and yet—I remain optimistic about the future of and empathy in our research projects but not always in our democracy within SEM and other academic societies, per- professional engagement and in our interactions with each haps in tandem with the ability of social media to facilitate other in social media and in live situations. Interesting, changes in social and civil discourse within our Society. yes? [continued on page 6] Features Announcements News Our Back Pages President’s Column 2018 SEM Prizes SEM’s New YouTube Channel SEM Publications SEM 2018 Honorary Members 2019 SEM Prizes 2019 Chapter Meetings Conference Calendar Trinidad Revisited 2018 Section Prizes Member News Advertisements 2018 Chapter Prizes Institutional News Internet Resources The Society for Ethnomusicology, SEM Newsletter James Cowdery, Editor, SEM Newsletter SEM Membership RILM, CUNY Graduate Center The object of the Society for Ethnomusicology is the ad- 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016 vancement of research and study in the field of ethnomu- semnewslettereditor@gmail.com sicology, for which purpose all interested persons, regard- less of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, SEM Newsletter is a vehicle for the exchange of ideas, or physical ability are encouraged to become members. news, and information among the Society’s members. 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University of Colorado Boulder ISSN 0036-1291 § Boulder, CO 80309 § 2 SEM 2018 Honorary Members Adelaida Reyes How does one sing the praises of Adelaida Reyes—scholar in studies of ethnicity with a 1979 article on “Ethnic Groups, extraordinaire, inspirational teacher, devoted mentor? None the Urban Area, and Ethnomusicology.” This work grew of these phrases really does justice to Adelaida (Dely) out of her research in Jersey City under the auspices of an Reyes’s very distinguished career and stellar contributions NEH grant, along with a 1980 publication titled “Let’s Meet to ethnomusicology. our Neighbors.” Next came Dely’s series of ground-break- ing interventions into migra- Most of us of a certain age came tion studies and music, with to know Dely’s work when her particular emphasis on forced landmark dissertation titled “The migration. Who can forget Role of Music in the Interaction Dely’s manifesto on explor- of Black Americans and His- ing the refugee experience panos in New York City’s East through music? This clarion Harlem” appeared in 1975. But call came in her 1989 article this was in fact well into Dely in the ICTM Yearbook “Music Reyes’ second career, depend- and Tradition: From Native ing on your count—she had to Adopted Land through already worked as a Music Critic the Refugee Experience,” for the Philippine Evening News followed by her 1990 special (1961–62) and The Manila Daily volume on Music and Forced Bulletin (1962–64) as well as Migration for The World of served as a faculty member at Music. Next came a tour de St. Scholastica’s College De- force, her monograph Songs partment of Music in Manila, Kay