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Contents School, by Patricia Shehan Campbell Judith Becker: 2010 SEM Honor- “No More to Ask”, by “A.” Volume 45 Number 1 January 2011 nC2 Ethnomusicology Goes to Middle Contents School, by Patricia Shehan Campbell Judith Becker: 2010 SEM Honor- “No more to ask”, by “A.” ... more on p. 14 “Listen to the falls, and sighs, and ary Member, by R. Anderson Sutton trills of the cantor’s singing.” This was Ethan Chessin’s opening ques- Judith Omans Becker joined the Obituary: Theodore C. Grame, by tion to a group of 26 twelve- and faculty of the School of Music at the Constantine Grame thirteen-year-old students enrolled in University of Michigan as an Assistant Theodore Grame, a pioneer in the North Park Middle School band in Professor in 1972, expanding the the field of Ethnomusicology, passed Pico Rivera, CA ... more on p. 11 offerings in ethnomusicology ... more away on February 21, 2010. Mr. on p. 4 Grame was born in the Bronx on Jan- People and Places uary twenty-eighth, 1930. A prodigy at Judith Cohen, Deborah Wong, the piano ... more on p. 8 Laurie Kay Sommers, Tormod W. Welcome to SEM/CORD in Phila- Anundsen, Robin Harris, Brian delphia, by Carol Muller Schrag, Brita Heimarck, Jeff Titon, Candida Jaquez ... more on p. 3 The 2011 Joint Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) Summer Programs and the Congress on Research in Smithsonian Folkways Certifica- Dance (CORD) will take place in the tion Workshop in World Music Peda- city of Philadelphia ... more on p. 16 gogy; Summer Institute in Ethnomusi- cology and Global Culture; Center for Newsletter Updates, by Henry World Music ... more on p. 5 Spiller, SEM Newsletter Editor Announcements Last year, the SEM Board of Di- rectors directed that the SEM News- Joint Panel Ideas for 2012 Meet- letter be distributed electronically. The ing; Ethnomusicology Forum; Seek- current issue reflects some changes ing Field and Studio Recordings ... more on p. 3 Judith Becker to the Newsletter’s format to make navigating easier ... more on p. 11 Conferences Calendar Weapons of Mass Instruction, by Call for Contributions Gage Averill, SEM President: “A ... more on p. 15 (Copy)Right to Sing the Blues” ICTM Study Group “Anthropology of Music in Mediterranean Cultures” 2011 Annual Meeting of SEM, Phila- Like many ethnomusicologists, Website ... more on p. 14 delphia, Call for Proposals I’ve spent lots of time trying to sort through the confusing layers of com- ... more on p. 17 mon law, case law, and statutory laws that establish and regulate copyright as it bears on sound recordings and compositions. ... more on p. 9 Prizes Alan Merriam Prize; Robert M. Stevenson Prize; Kunst Prize; Charles Seeger Prize; Ida Halperin Fellowship; Klaus Wachsmann Prize; Nahumck Prize; Section Prizes; Chapter Prizes ... more on p. 6 “Board’s-eye view” of the membership meeting at SEM 2010 in LA (photo: Tomie Hahn) Internet Resources Ethnomusicology Sites The Society for Ethnomusicol- American Folklife Center ogy and the SEM Newsletter The SEM Website http://www.loc.gov/folklife/ http://www.ethnomusicology.org Editor, SEM Newsletter British Forum for Ethnomusicology Henry Spiller The SEM Discussion List: SEM-L Department of Music http://www.bfe.org.uk University of California To subscribe, send email message One Shields Avenue British Library Sound Archive to: [email protected]. Davis, CA 95616, USA http://www.bl.uk/wtm (Tel) 530.752.2603 (Fax) 530.752.0983 EDU. Leave subject line blank. Type (Email) [email protected] the following message: SUBSCRIBE http://cadensa.bl.uk SEM-L . 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The dissertation combines a Candida Jaquez (Chair, Music is the first recipìent of the Kluge Foucaultian perspective on discourse Department, Scripps College) has Foundation’s Alan Lomax Fellowship, with ethnographic observations and been named Director of the Hu- which she will take up at the Library performance analyses, linking the manities Institute at Scripps College of Congress in the spring and sum- micro-level of musical practices with beginning in the Fall of 2010 through mer. Specifically, she will work on a macro-level of political and cultural 2013. Scripps College is part of the Lomax’s Spanish recordings, which discourse. The dissertation is written Claremont Colleges, located in south- she’s been editing for several years, in English, and he hopes to publish ern California. along with other material in the hold- and present his findings in SEM Marcia Ostashewski is the first ings related to Lomax’s work in Spain conferences and/or publications in ethnomusicologist to be awarded She will coordinate this work with the 2011/2012. a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair followup fieldwork
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