Volume 44 Number 1 January 2010 curriculum. She directed the Ugandan 2009 SEM Honorary kiganda xylophone study group from Inside Member: Lois Ann 1975-2008 and she directed/coordi- 1 2009 SEM Honorary Member nated the Javanese gamelan ensem- 1 Weapons of Mass Instruction Anderson ble from 1976-1982. 3 People and Places Lois’s colleagues in By Portia K. Maultsby, Virginia Gor- 4 nC embraced her vision for a broader 2 linski, and Mellonee Burnim 7 54th Annual Meeting curriculum and a more comprehen- 9 Prizes Lois Ann Anderson was among sive approach to the study of 11 President’s Report the first generation of ethnomusicolo- traditions, integrating ethnomusicol- 13 Calls for Participation gists to graduate from UCLA and to ogy courses into the musicology 15 SEM Crossroads Project establish programs program and including related content 15 Resolution of Thanks at major research institutions through- on PhD exams. The School of Music 17 Announcements out the country. After receiving her also adopted a more democratic 21 Conferences Calendar PhD under the directorship of Mantle administrative structure that rotated division chairs between the two disciplines. Over Weapons of Mass In- her forty years at the University of struction Wisconsin, Lois By Gage Averill, SEM President served as chair several times and “Ethnomusicology At the End Of she served as Di- Petroglobalization” rector of the Cen- You will notice as you attempt to ter for Southeast open up this edition of the Asian Studies Newslet- and spread it on the desk that it from 1981-1982. ter is no longer made of paper. As we Lois was com- make clear elsewhere, it is in transi- mitted to training tion (a PDF file for now) to a digital, first-rate ethno- linkable, web-resident version that musicologists. will support multimedia content, that She challenged will be archivable on our website, and and encouraged that will not result in the unnecessary her students to harvest of trees. Of course the Web extend estab- comes with its own carbon footprint, lished intellectual which we can scarcely ignore, but the boundaries (i.e., demise of the print should to “think outside Newsletter lessen the impact on our forests, Lois Anderson and Gini Gorlinski (photo: Alan Burdette) the box”) and to spare some carbon-intensive mail become critical Hood and Klaus Wachsmann in1968, thinkers, as evidenced by the copious delivery impacts, and save the Soci- she began her teaching career at the comments on papers that character- ety tens of thousands of dollars each University of Wisconsin, Madison, ized her grading style. Lois was intel- year. And if you like, you can still print where she retired in spring 2008. lectually intense and she expected it out for your kitchen table. As the only ethnomusicologist in the her students to perform at the highest We are also exploring having School of Music for fourteen years, level of excellence. Routine revisions our Journal available at the time of she established a viable graduate of papers became the norm for those publication in a digital version. Such and undergraduate academic curricu- of us who strove to meet her expecta- an could vastly expand lum. In addition to the core ethnomu- tions. 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 SEM Newsletter People and Places Sami Abu Shumays is develop- ing a website to provide comprehen- sive online instruction in the Maqam (Arabic Modal) system, featuring melodic phrases in each Jins, and producing an educational DVD on maqam. Visit (website) http://maqam- lessons.com. Frederick Moehn is pleased to Fred Moehn Pic join the faculty of the Institute for Ethnomusicology—Music and Dance (INET-MD) of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in as a Research Associate. The Institute is under the directorship of Dr. Salwa El-Shawan Castelo Branco. Professor Moehn’s article, “Music, Mixing, and Moder- nity in Rio de Janeiro,” published in Ethnomusicology Forum in 2008 (vol. Frederick Moehn receives the Kunst Award from James Cowdery (photo: Alan Burdette) 17/2), was awarded the Jaap Kunst Prize at the annual business meeting mote making young people feel fully instruments from the Robert E. Brown of the Society for Ethnomusicology in alive through rhythm as expressed Center for World Music at the Univer- Mexico City. in dance, music and poetry. Individu- sity of Illinois. Mary Talusan Lacanlale’s als and organizations can apply; see Masato Tani was awarded the recent and upcoming publications (website) http://www.jubilationfounda- Tanabe Hisao Prize of The Society include: “Gendering the Philippine tion.org for more details. for Research in Asiatic Music (Tôyô Brass : Women of the Ligaya Myrna Capp spent nine months Ongaku Gakkai, Japan) for her Band and National University Band, lecturing at the University of Namibia book, Music of : Orality-Centered 1920s-1930s,” Musika Jornal 5: 33- and doing research on Traditional Mentality and Improvisation (Tokyo: 56 (2009); “Marching to ‘Progress’: Namibian music. Seidosha, 2007). Music, Race, and Imperialism at the Hiromi Lorraine Sakata, Profes- Bruno Nettl, Professor Emeritus 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair,” in Mixed sor Emerita of Ethnomusicology at of Music and Anthropology at the Blessing: The Impact of the Ameri- UCLA, is project director for two NEH University of Illinois in Urbana-Cham- can Colonial Experience on Politics grants concerning the digitization and paign, has been awarded an Emeri- and Society in the Philippines, ed. preservation of the Radio Afghanistan tus Fellowship for the year 2009-10 Hazel M. McFerson (Westport, CT: Archives of National Radio-Televi- by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Greenwood Publishing Group, reprint sion Afghanistan. The Archives has According to the Mellon Foundation, 2009); and “Music and Rebellion: maintained 8500 hours of music “Emeritus Fellowships are intended Magindanao Protest during recordings since its inception in the to support the scholarly activities of Martial Law,” special issue on “Music early 1960s. She is also a member of outstanding faculty members in the Hybridities” in Humanities Diliman the Board of Trustees of the Ameri- humanities and humanistic social Journal (2009). can University of Afghanistan, the sciences who, at the time of taking Daniel Ferreira just began a only private, not-for-profit institution up the fellowships, will be officially world music course and a steel drum/ of higher education in the country retired but continue to be active and Batucada ensemble at Saint Joseph (website http://www.auaf.edu.af). In productive in their fields. In addition, High School in Trumbull, CT. their first October, 2009, she participated in the program provides institutions with concert was a great success. the Falak Festival and Symposium in resources to defray incremental costs Two new books by Kent J. Engel- Dushanbe, Tajikistan, sponsored by associated with the fellows.” The Mel- hardt have been published by VDM the Ministry of Culture of the Republic lon Foundation awards approximately Publishing and are available on Ama- of Tajikistan. twenty Emeritus Fellowships annu- zon.com: Charlie Parker, Culture, and Sonja Downing and Dewa Ketut ally. Candidates for Fellowships are Influences: Analysis of Selected Early Alit Adnyana have started a Balinese nominated by their institutions. Nettl, Solos (2009) and Charlie Parker, Cul- gamelan ensemble at Lawrence who assumed the status of Professor ture, and Influences: Analysis of his University, This group, Gamelan Ca- Emeritus in 1992 but has continued Solos with The Jay McShann Orches- haya Asri, is the first active Balinese to teach part-time, is the second SEM tra (2009). gamelan (to their knowledge) in the member to receive such an award Charles M. Keil is an advisor with state of Wisconsin. They are grateful since the program began in 2003 (the the Jubilation Foundation, Olympia, to Philip Yampolsky and Ketut As- first was Harold S. Powers). He will WA, which grants fellowships to pro- nawa for the use of the gong kebyar Continued on page 20

SEM Newsletter  Recite, retell the past from yellowing memories: resight. Forgetting, the enfolding sable of blindness, is a kindness of the Furies—endless remembering is madness. Acquisitive in fieldwork, hoarding moments, we incite them. But Mnemosyne, mother of nine, gifts us with a way out of this Morton’s Fork of madness or forgetting: insight. Ethnographers twice arouse Derek Walcott’s “fitful muse, memory”—the rememberers rummaging through trunks of their histories, the researchers rummaging through their trunks of histories re-historicized. We lug these trunks everywhere, precious chests of Others’ china. Musty. Must we? Maybe: To New World post-colonialist thinkers, history is fiction, a middle passage between myth and motive, a dance of limbo between the weight of creation and the elation of re-creation. We won’t want to leave such treasures on the beach—they will be buried, then one day unearthed, their contents misunderstood, passed off as curios and dispersed. This edition’s contributor travels to the land of her ancestors, but it is not how she would remember it. Instead, it is a new world, where myth, fantasy, evidence and emotion ring from the strings of rebetiko violin. —Jesse Samba Wheeler

<< Live Your Myth >>

by Yona Stamatis Athens, Greece, May 2OO9

In May, 2008, I traveled to Athens, Greece to perform fieldwork on the urban popular genre rebetika. Italo Calvino’s Imagined Cities accompanied me on the ten-hour plane ride from New York to Athens. The city that I was about to visit, he warned, would only ever exist in my imagination. The Athens that I would get to know and love would be an Athens I would create for myself by piling up experiences and then forgetting them one by one. An enormous Greek National Tourist Organiza- tion billboard greeted me at the Athens airport: “Live Your Myth in Greece, Starring You.” And what a city! Just look at the glorious ruins of ancient Greece, this navel of Europe, the birthplace of democracy! But wait. Here in the city center is a dif- ferent Athens. In the city’s oldest and best-known rebetika tavern, Rebetiki Istoria [“Rebetika History”], the sing about a devastating economic crisis, about social injustice, about corruption. They are so very convincing … their Athens be- comes mine: I stop searching for the acropolis on the horizon, for happily-dancing Zorbas on the beach. I yield and let my teachers in the field shape my city and my rebetika. For a while I wallow in disillusionment, unable to write. The following is a poem I wrote in response to my initial confusion in the field. Rebetiko Nation Italo Calvino once wrote that memory is redundant That memory repeats signs And thus creates the city. Athens is not yet mine I do not know what to remember. Sunshine, blue waters, the acropolis,

 SEM Newsletter What Grandeur, this birthplace of Europe! Step around the cardboard houses, avert your eyes from open hands and missing limbs the shadows in the field. I remember I remember Ippokratous street Every night I walked down down to find my escape in the little tavern Violin in hand heels clicking against the pavement. Inside they sang, and how! The music was rebetika. The word curled then rolled off my tongue This is Greek music, they said Written by people like you and me The songs are real, they tell of love loss poverty exile social injustice You have to believe to play rebetika. In Rebetiki Istoria they do not avert their eyes Song after song after song The pieces fall into place I am devastated This is more than I had bargained for When I agreed to travel to the field. Hours pass, shutters close and open I emerge dazed and spent and walk up up Ippokratous street Stepping around the cardboard houses, dropping coins in open hands the acropolis, I avert my eyes. I am and I feel and I cannot stop piling up pieces of memory No one told me that creating this city meant admitting defeat. My notebook remains blank I do not want to remember just yet And my mind Well no matter for now just eighteen hours until my next escape.

Ευχαριστώ πολύ! to Yona Stamatis, a PhD candidate in Ethnomusicology at the University of Michigan researching Greek na- tional identity formation and issues of European integration as evidenced in contemporary rebetiko performance. She is fieldwork in Athens, Greece, with the help of a Fulbright grant.

SEM Newsletter  Lois Anderson participants in the Society, Lois even study of African traditions, especially taught us that attending the SEM those of the East African countries continued from page 1 business meetings was required, not of Uganda, , Rwanda, and stayed abreast of the related litera- optional. “That’s were you really learn Burundi. Working from a practical, ture, always prompting the same rig- what’s going on” she quipped. She historical, and music-theoretical per- orous bibliographic profile with such has served the Society with distinc- spective, she has focused on the xy- routine probing questions as: “Have tion since 1970, when she was first lophone of the Baganda and you seen…” or “Did you read….” A elected to the Council for a two-year Basoga peoples of Uganda, publish- response of “no” was never accept- term, during which she served as ing articles, delivering presentations, able. Our only option was to follow secretary. Her commitment and excel- and leading an amadinda/akadinda through, no matter in what country lence in this capacity led to her elec- xylophone performing group at the the resource might reside, or in what tion to the Council for an additional University of Wisconsin for more than language it was written! six terms over the three subsequent two decades. Through the group’s Lois’s mentorship extended well decades. From 1979-91, Lois was local, regional, and international beyond subject matter content to First Vice President of the Society (Mexico City, 1991) appearances, training her students as professionals. and, from 1989-1991, she was the Lois strove to heighten public aware- She insisted that we join and attend SEM delegate to the American Coun- ness of Uganda, its people, and its the regional and national meetings of cil of Learned Societies (ACLS). Over musical heritage. In addition to her the Society for Ethnomusicology, and four decades she served on several work with East African music, Lois oftentimes, she made these trips pos- committees, including the Nomina- conducted research in North Africa on sible. Using the funds allocated for tions Committees for the Board of oral traditions in Berber communities personal faculty travel, Lois frequently Directors, Councilors, and Officers; in Morocco. Most recently, Lois has drove (rather than flew) to confer- chair and member of the Program investigated the position of traditional ences in order to be able to support Committee; member of the Constitu- music in the Ugandan broadcast her students’ attendance. She also tion Committee; and Panel Chair of media as well as the role of the Pearl assisted with housing , various sessions—a total of twenty- of Africa Music awards in the cultiva- and convened evening discussions five appointments in all. tion of the East African about the sessions we attended. As a scholar and , Lois industry. Encouraging her students to be active has dedicated forty-plus years to the Lois’s record demon- strates an un- wavering com- mitment to her students, to scholarship, and to the field of ethno- musicology. Moreover, she has been an advocate and pioneer in the develop- ment of the Society for Ethnomusicol- ogy. We are both pleased and proud that the Society has awarded our mentor and friend, Dr. Lois Ann Anderson, the title of honor- ary member of the Society for Ethnomusicol- Portia Maultsby, Lois Anderson, and Mellonee Burnim (photo: Alan Burdette) ogy.

 SEM Newsletter easier to get a visa to enter Mexico 54th Annual Meeting than the US. Our introduction to other of SEM, Mexico City, ethnomusicologies came with names Mexico and the physical presence of scholars themselves, no longer “foreign” in the By Brenda M. Romero, SEM 2009 broader sense. Program Committee Chair The 54th Annual SEM meeting was historic for being the first time First of all, I want to thank every- th in Mexico and as such it served as a one who made the recent 54 Annual catalyst for a number of Mexican in- Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusi- stitutions to work with SEM in various cology in Mexico City not only pos- ways. Highlights of Local Arrange- sible, but also intellectually inspiring ments were visits to a variety of im- and in so many other ways inolvid- portant music and cultural institutions. able [unforgettable]. Thank you also On Wednesday we visited the Na- for tolerating my impromptu transla- tional School of Music of the National tions. SEM has no budget for official Autonomous University of Mexico translators, and although I knew that (ENM-UNAM) for the pre-confer- many of you could do a better job ence on Musical Research in Mexico. than I, my colleague and co-con- Thursday took us to the remarkable spirator, LAC Chair (and now Living National Museum of Anthropology, National Treasure) Guillermo Contre- Guillermo Contreras (photo: Alan Burdette) where Dr. Francisco Barriga greeted ras specifically requested that I do the us and Bill DeWalt of the Musical honors. I am grateful to Dr. Francisco from far away wanting to be a part of Instrument Museum in Phoenix, AZ, Barriga, Dr. Humberto Chávez Mayol, this landmark meeting for SEM and who provided the Welcome Recep- Leonel Duran, Eugenio Delgado Par- appearing on the program, I am en- tion, delivered his short speech in ra, and to all of you who were present cantada [delighted] that our villages Spanish and English. Those who had for your warmth and understanding near and far could make it all work. never visited Mexico could catch a under the circumstances. Felicidades to all of you! quick glimpse at the incredible history Hats off to Guillermo Contreras, By all accounts, the to his assistants, Iskra Rojo Negrete program was dynamic and (volunteer coordinator), Guillermo’s the sessions were well daughter Ixtlixochitl Contreras Gó- attended, even all day mez, and Maestro José Luis Sagredo, Sunday. Deborah Wong’s and to all of our colleagues in Mexico President’s Plenary City. As a Fulbright Scholar living in Roundtable on Saturday Mexico City for nine months in 2000- was certainly a program 01 I lived in some of those networks. highlight. The well-attend- Coming back to Mexico City now, with ed special event focused a core of Mexican scholars and Latin on the interrogation of American scholars and many others ethnomusicology in terms of area studies. Many raved about the Seeger Lecture, a poetic unveiling of acoustic landscapes, as Steven Feld pushed the envelope, challenged A table of ethnomusicologists enjoying a mariachi at Plaza Garibaldi (photo: David Verbuc) our “ethnomusicology givens,” and lent the meeting an told by monumental rock carvings almost surreal character. Although and other amazing artifacts in the safe in the cocoon of a luxury hotel Mexica wing. in the business district, in many other Saturday evening took us to ways SEM moved out of its usual the National Museum of Cultures cultural and linguistic comfort zone, (MNC) in the Zócalo, central Mexico and to some extent decentered the City square. The MNC was officially Anglophone hegemony many of us closed but magically opened for SEM have always taken for granted. Ap- to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of proximately 125 foreign scholars, 43 the Society for Asian Music. As the from Mexico and nearly 60 from Latin gracious director, Leonel Duran, America, and the rest from all corners told us, the MNC was formerly the Mariachi Arredondo (photo: Alan Burdette) of the globe, reflected in part that it is Continued on page 8 SEM Newsletter  Mexico CIty and at the same time critical thinkers. locales for the production of cultural Steve Blum provided such a variety knowledge, as opposed to the almost continued from page 7 of ‘open spaces’ for members of the culture-free environs of an interna- first National Museum of Anthro- panel to go to, which they (we) did, tional hotel. An important part of all pology and History, and beneath it further reinforcing the diversity of our events in Mexico is the clausura, so the earliest colonial African slaves field.” Meanwhile, back at the Hotel to close the meeting we ended up were once housed. That was the Meliã Reforma, many were learning at the National Museum of Popular preferred location for the last Aztec to dance danzón with local maestra Culture, not far from the CNA in the emperor, Moctezuma II (1466–1520), Laura Calderón de la Barca. south of the city, in the Coyoacán to meditate on the implications of Sunday afternoon brought us district. A bustling the rapid changes he was witness- to the National Center for the Arts fair was kept open for SEM, and the ing. LAC Chair Guillermo Contreras (CNA), where finding our meet- sounds of didgeridoos outwardly outdid himself, bringing Koh Okabe, ing rooms was akin to finding one’s resembling ancient Mayan trumpets famous Japanese photographer of way in a labyrinth, shaking us just resounded between songs performed world musicians, to the event for the enough to take note of the grandeur by a lively traditional (sans trumpets) inauguration of the photographic ex- of the place and also feeling that time Mariachi Arredondo from Jalisco. hibit especially for SEM, surrounded worlds do not always connect. Again In the square a half a block away by an exquisite display of some of the SEM came through with vibrant ses- musicians from all parts of Mexico museum’s musical instruments, in a sions continuing in the afternoon. Ah, performed on an open stage in honor Japanese garden setting. Following well, on behalf of all the organizers I of the feast day of Santa Cecilia, the the exhibition inauguration, Jay Keis- apologize that we were unable to see patroness of musicians. Some of us ter and Mami Itasaka Keister took to session 13I onsite, but the exciting later made our way to the famous the stage to reveal the intricacies of news is that this situation has led Garibaldi Plaza to see the best Nihon Buyo dance (an official confer- SEM to develop an online link to the mariachis of Mexico, also on a free ence session). The Society for Asian Sonidero Project’s virtual multi-media open stage. Others of us gathered at music “evening” at the MNC was high presentation. Keep an eye out for the homes of friends and no doubt point of the conference, as Ricardo more information on this. many others stayed in to rest for Trimillo wrote to me, “both for the This first multi-sited conference those early morning Monday flights encapsulation of what ethnoids are brought challenges but also an op- back home. Still others continued to all about, i.e., scholars as performers portunity to experience “indigenous” outreach projects in other Mexican cities.

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 SEM Newsletter are books that capture the essence of rattle more quickly and women Prizes career-long research projects, which in the audience began to The following prizes were an- demonstrate unquestionable mastery ululate, and the flddlers began nounced at the SEM general mem- and which bring together the strands to repeat the main melody of bership meeting on November 20, of smaller works and previous publi- songs more rapidly without any 2009, in Mexico City. Congratulations cations in a consummate display. Our singing.” (6) to all winners! winner for 2009 is one of those such books. I would like to thank the members Alan Merriam Prize Fiddling in West Africa: Touching of the Alan Merriam Prize Committee the Spirit in Fulbe, Hausa, and Dag- for 2009: Timothy Rommen, Amanda by Gage Averill bamba Cultures by Jacqueline Djedje Weidman, Edwin Seroussi, for their The Alan Merriam Prize recog- (Indiana University Press, 2008) is hard work and for the generosity, nizes the most distinguished, pub- the result of multi-site ethnography insight and good judgment that they lished English-language monograph conducted on single-string fiddling brought to the task. Our sincerest in the field of ethnomusicology. This traditions among the Fulbe, Hausa, congratulations to Jacqueline Djedje year, there were 24 qualifying books and Dagbamba cultures of West Af- (UCLA), the 2009 Alan Merriam Prize in a strong pool, and this pool was rica over a span of over thirty years. It recipient. whittled down by the Committee to weighs in on a broad range of areas a short-list of five leading contribu- of interest to ethnomusicologists: Robert M. Stevenson Prize tions to the field, any one of which organology, instrument diffusion and could have won the prize. However, history of instrument families, musi- by Jody Diamond the Alan Merriam Prize Committee cian biographies, music in sacred The Robert M. Stevenson prize has fulfilled its duty and decided on a performance, patronage and social honors ethnomusicologists who are winner. organization, gender, dance and also by encouraging There are of course books by more. research and recognizing a book, first time authors that impress and The following brief passage gives dissertation, or paper (published that help to establish a reputation a sense of the compelling writing that or unpublished) on their composi- in the field. And there are mature brings alive the musical cultures at tional oeuvre. As an extension of second and third projects that reveal the heart of this volume. that purpose, the prize may also be a scholar’s depth and vision—coming It was not an everyday occur- awarded to a book, dissertation, or of age works—which sometimes gar- rence for foreigners to visit paper (published or unpublished) on ner the Merriam prize. And then there Savelugu for the sole purpose a ’s (or composers’) use of recording fiddle music. On in any genre of traditional, popular, that day, Salisu and his rela- or art music of ethnomusicological tives were “stars” in the eyes research materials in their creative of their neighbors, and people work. This is not an award for the wanted to see them. compositions themselves, but for research and publication on those As the performers continued, compositions. For more information women and men in the audi- on the application process, as well as ence began entering the circle other projects that may be covered by to dance. At one point, a man the prize, see (website) http://webdb. and a woman danced alone iu.edu/sem/scripts/prizes/prizesdetail. in the circle, each performing cfm?pID=6. a separate dance. While the The prize committee (Jody Dia- woman’s movements were mond [chair], Christopher Adler, and reserved as she gracefully Münir Beken) awarded the 2009 prize moved her body from side to to Ethan Lechner for his dissertation, side, the man made large turns “Composers as Ethnographers: Dif- to the right and left so that his ference In The Imaginations of Colin smock swirled about him. As McPhee, Henry Cowell, and Lou Har- people danced, the female rison” (UNC Chapel Hill, 2008, super- zaabia got up, entered the vised by Sarah Weiss). One member circle, and stood close to the commented, “Lechner brings great dancers, so she could better clarity to their relationship with mod- coordinate her rhythms with ernist and anthropological discourses their movements. When this of their time and shows that they happened, sound and move- were not the cultural relativists they ment became more intense: are imagined to be. He effectively the zaabia moved with the dancers as she played the Jacqueline Djedje and Gage Averill Continued on page 14 SEM Newsletter  10 SEM Newsletter President’s Report By Deborah Wong, Past President This report was read at the Gener- al Membership meeting on November 20, 2009, in Mexico City. —editor

It has been a busy year for the SEM Board. Meeting in the great metropolis of Ciudad de México, DF, is the culmination of several years of discussion and planning, so I can hardly believe that we are now actu- ally here, together, reveling in the riches of a historic annual meeting. We have left the Great North! We have dared to look beyond the rou- tine. We have taken risks in doing so. Even while we have looked forward to this annual meeting and all its unique features, the Board assessed and SEM Presidents in Mexico City (l to r): Gage Averill, Deborah Wong, Tim Rice, Ellen reassessed the risks of a meeting Koskoff, Philip Bohlman, Ruth Stone, Anthony Seeger, Robert Garfias, Charlotte Frisbie that could spell financial trouble for (photo: Alan Burdette) the Society. As H1N1, drug-related violence, and the global recession accomplishments of the year. The tions of ethnomusicological scholar- made headlines this past year, the September issue the Newsletter con- ship in different directions. The first Board was under certain pressures to tained its full text and I devoted my book in the series is in its late stages take the safe way out and meet north President’s column to it. The Strategic of work and will offer translations of of the border. We chose not to do Plan addresses the next five years key Spanish-language scholarship so. In his Newsletter article (vol. 44, (2009-2013). It is both a bold new into English. Ably co-edited by Peter no. 4, p. 12), LAC member Alejandro commitment to a long-term vision Manuel, Javier Leon, and Michael Madrid bluntly identified the fears that for the Society and the culmination Marcuzzi, we look forward to its ap- drive Great North encounters with of years of discussion across many pearance. Salwa el-Shawan Castelo- México. The Board knew that the Board members and key committees Branco serves as the first General fiscal risks were real. Our bottom-line (especially the Long-Term Planning Editor for the series. Other books responsibility is to ensure the contin- Committee and the Development are in planning. Note that the series ued financial health of the Society, Committee). The Board is especially does not presume translation into so we have approached this meeting grateful to Executive Director Steve English—indeed, the series posits with a combination of anxiety and Stuempfle for his expert work on the translation as a relational, connec- excitement, pride and apprehension. Strategic Plan. His considerable ex- tive technology that ideally will serve Our decision to meet here was made perience in the non-profit sector really ethnomusicologists across borders. with a heavy sense of responsibility paid off, as his ability to assess and SEM continues to look beyond and a vision for a borderless ethno- consolidate years of meeting minutes, its own front yard on the US front as musicology. reports, and wide-ranging conversa- well. The SEM President is an ex of- The global recession means that tions made the difference. If at all ficio member of the American Folklife many SEM members receive less possible, please come to the 12:30 Center at the US Library of Congress, support than ever for conference p.m. meeting tomorrow, where mem- so I have had the privilege over the travel. This year’s list of regrets from bers of the Long-Range Planning and past two years of ensuring—along members not attending was much Development Committees will lead an with Smithsonian/Folkways, Judith longer than usual. Those colleagues open discussion of the Strategic Plan. McCulloh, and other ethnomusicolo- will be missed, but we are also meet- Your input is needed. Your ability to gists on that Board—that music is ing new colleagues from the Great see yourselves in the Strategic Plan always part of the conversation. A South, and these expanded circles of is essential. major AFC project documented ora- friendship and connection make all The Board has looked outward tions and church services during the the difference. in other ways. We have continued to week leading up to the inauguration This year, the SEM Board looked push against the North American-cen- of President Barack Hussein Obama both inward and outward. Let me first tric practices that have marked our in January 2009. A new project, address our efforts to look toward the Society. We committed to the SEM America Works, is an ambitious ef- horizon. The Society’s first-ever Stra- Translation Series, a projected series fort-in-the-planning that will document tegic Plan is one of the Board’s major of edited collection offering transla- Continued on page 12

SEM Newsletter 11 President’s Report wan Castelo-Branco, Secretary Janet Sturman, and Member at Large Tong continued from page 11 Soon Lee. Tong Soon has attended what work means in the imagination to the needs of SEM’s many com- of the US at a historical moment mittees, sections, special interest threatened by recession, and I hope groups, and ancillary organizations— SEM will take a leading role in that groups that constitute the life blood project. Further, the SEM President of the Society—and he has done so and Executive Director attend the an- with grace, thoughtfulness, and care. nual meeting of the American Coun- Salwa has brought stunning organi- cil of Learned Societies, where we zational abilities and a clear-headed contribute to discussions about the vision to the Society’s publications. humanities and learn from represen- The new SEM translation series will tatives of other scholarly societies. be at the center of her legacy. Janet The Board is also attempting has served two consecutive terms as some frontline advocacy work. In Secretary and she has been the glue the US, institutional review boards, between us all—the Board member or IRBs, remain a real challenge for with a big-picture perspective and scholars doing ethnographic re- institutional memory. She has been search, and the Board has responded consummately professional, cheer- to a request from the SEM Committee ful, and effective, and I am especially on Ethics to attempt a broad-based grateful to her. Thank you to all three response to the problems. The Board of your for your visionary work. is in the process of strategizing with We would not be here today if it several sister societies on this. SEM were not for the Program Committee will likely take a lead role in this effort. Brenda Romero and Deborah Wong (photo: and the Local Arrangements Commit- We are used to educating our col- Alan Burdette) tee. Brenda Romero’s commitment leagues about other peoples, other to a Latin American-based meeting places, and other musics, and so we has been unshakable: her vision of now turn our attention to how we can have thought of both as zócalo for ad- a foundation-rocking conference has educate IRBs about expedited review dressing the most urgent and press- come to pass, and we are all indebted and intangible culture. Stay tuned. ing issues facing ethnomusicology as to her. She has been an exemplary The Board has also looked inward a discipline and SEM as a scholarly Chair to the Program Committee. The this year. Power tends to replicate it- society. I have focused each of my Local Arrangements Committee this self, and organizations are especially Newsletter columns on new initiatives year is a small galaxy of local arts vulnerable to this. The Board made in SEM and have used a polyvo- and educational institutions—to list two decisions aimed toward opening cal format to put members’ voices them and their representatives is a the channel: we issued open calls for before you. Over the past two years, road map to the arts in Mexico City. I members’ participation in the work my columns have addressed new must single out Professor Guillermo of the Society, and we conducted regional chapters (Southern Plains Contreras. His gentle humor, his the first-ever electronic election. This and the Southern California and grounded knowledge of Mexican mu- years’ membership renewal form Hawai`i chapter), new Special Inter- sic and musicians, and his astonish- contained check boxes for targeted est Groups (on Irish music, and music ing network of professional connec- interest in the Society’s committees and violence), the 21st anniversary of tions shape this meeting from top to and governance, and we also issued the publication of Women and Music bottom. On behalf of the Board, this an open call over SEM-L. You re- in Cross-Cultural Perspective, the grateful President says les agradec- sponded: we received 128 indications President’s Roundtable on American emos mucho to the Program Com- of interest from you, ranging from imperialism, and the Society’s Strate- mittee and the Local Arrangements the desire to serve on committees, gic Plan. My Roundtable tomorrow at Committee. to nominations and self-nominations 10:45 a.m. will feature five US-based Most especially, I thank SEM for the Council and Board. Many of scholars thinking about area studies Executive Director Steve Stuempfle, you have not yet had the opportunity and its power to define, to blind, and who has lived this conference for to serve. The Board immediately to en-place our critical trajectories. more than a year. Finally, on behalf acted on this stunning response and Our General Membership Meet- of the Board, let me thank all of is already drawing from that list. We ings sometimes seem like one long you—the membership—for your com- only regret that we can’t call on each thank you, but there’s a reason for mitment to the Society. Or rather, you and every one of you, but the spirit of that: SEM is driven by a profound are the Society. SEM is no abstract participation is alive and well in SEM. spirit of volunteerism and collabora- thing: it is the polyglot whole consti- The President has two plat- tive effort. Three Board members will tuted out of the sum of your parts, forms—the Newsletter column and rotate off at the end of this meeting: so thank you for all you bring to the the President’s Roundtable—and I First Vice-President Salwa el-Sha- Society. 12 SEM Newsletter requirements. Those proposing pan- documentation. Four fields will form Calls for Participation els or roundtables should submit an general conference themes: gram- Research Fellowships in abstract for each panelist as well as mar, prosody, semantics and cogni- for the session as a whole. Students tion, and music. Deadline: January 25, 2010 should indicate their intentions to be The themes will be cross-cut by The Sultan Qaboos Cultural considered for the Vida Chenoweth a set of theoretical, methodological Center (SQCC) and the Council Student Paper Prize, given annually and technical topics, which will allow of American Overseas Research to recognize the best student paper for greater integration of themes and Centers (CAORC) are pleased to presented at the conference. All facilitate discussion and exchange of announce the SQCC Research Fel- materials must arrive by February 15, ideas across fields. These cross-cut- lowship Program. Two awards up to 2010. Send proposals to Rolf Groes- ting topics can be collapsed under 20,000 Omani Riyals (approximately beck, SEMSP 2010 Program Chair, at three main headings: (1) description, $52,015.66) will be given out to (email) [email protected]. (2) documentation, and (3) compari- scholars who wish to conduct re- Registration, travel, accommo- son and typologization. search in Oman on (1) the traditional dation information, and a prelimi- The host department, the Centre music of Oman or (2) Omani date nary program will be posted on the for Languages and Literature at Lund palm industry. Proposals that seek SEMSP listserv (to join, go to website University, together with the adjacent links or comparisons between the US http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/ Humanities Laboratory, provides a and Oman are desirable. For more group/SEMSP/), the SEMSP website unique research environment, ideal complete information and application (www.semsouthernplains.org), the for advancing technical aspects of guidelines, see (website) http://www. SEM-L listserv, and other locations. documentation and description. Our caorc.org/programs/sqcc.htm. The department boasts a long-standing deadline for proposals is January 25, Humanities of the Lesser-Known tradition of research on lesser-known 2010. languages and cultures, with a focus Centre for Languages and Literature, on fields which have traditionally SEM Southern Plains Chapter An- Lund University, Sweden, September received limited attention in endan- nual Meeting 10-11, 2010 gered languages research, especially Deadline: February 28, 2010 prosody, semantic typology, and University of Oklahoma , April 17, musicology. 2010 “Humanities of the Lesser-Known: We invite submissions from all New Directions in the Description, Deadline: February 15, 2010 areas of linguistics and musicology of Documentation, and Typology of endangered or lesser-known lan- The SEM Southern Plains Chap- Endangered Languages and Mu- guages or cultures, and particularly ter, founded in 2008, will hold its an- sics” will bring together leading welcome papers which deal with the nual meeting on April 17, 2010, at the international expertise in the fields interfaces between different domains University of Oklahama in Norman, of language documentation and of human communication. Individual OK. The Program Committee invites description, linguistic typology, and papers (20 minutes plus 10 minutes all ethnomusicologists, especially musicology. It draws its inspiration for discussion) and poster talks can SEM-SP members, and others with a from the idea that the field of humani- be submitted through the conference strong interest in ethnomusicology, to ties is concerned with humankind in website, http://conference.sol.lu.se/ submit proposals for papers, panels, all its cultural and linguistic richness, en/hlk-2010/, until February 28, 2010. posters, roundtable discussions, and that the study of lesser-known workshops, audio-visual presenta- language settings is crucial to our tions, and performances. understanding of the true scope of SEM Southwest Chapter Annual Proposers are encouraged to cross-cultural constraints and diver- Meeting submit abstracts on any topic of eth- sity in language and thought. Until University of Arizona School of Music, nomusicological interest. Individual recently, documentation and descrip- April 16-17, 2010 papers should be 20 minutes; papers tion of lesser-known and endangered that are part of roundtables should be languages largely amounted to Deadline: February 15, 2010 10 minutes to allow for more discus- studying formal grammar. However, a The annual meeting of the South- sion. Those wishing to read papers, number of theoretical, methodological west Chapter of the Society for Eth- exhibit posters, or give presentations, and technical advances have trans- nomusicology, the Rocky Mountain workshops, or performances should formed the field researcher’s agenda Chapter of the American Musicologi- send an abstract of no more that 250 and now allow for detailed explora- cal Society, and the Rocky Mountain words. Abstracts should begin with tion and comparison of a wider set of Chapter of the Society for Music the name of the presenter, followed aspects of language and culture. The Theory will take place on Friday and by the presenter’s affiliation. The general aim of the conference is to Saturday, April 16 and 17, 2010, at heading must then state the title of focus on some such fields of investi- the University of Arizona School of the paper and the title of the planned gation and to find ways of integrating Music in Tucson, AZ. We are solicit- session, if any. On a separate line be- them to a more comprehensive and ing proposals for papers, demonstra- low the abstract, state any equipment coherent program of description and Continued on page 19

SEM Newsletter 13 Prizes this year it was decided to award the year, because of the high number Seeger Prize as well as an Honor- of applicants and the high quality continued from page 9 able Mention. Congratulations to of the papers submitted, the Water- expresses admiration for their music Max Katz, hailing from the University man Prize Committee (comprised without giving up the critical perspec- of California, Santa Barbara, for his of Frank Gunderson, Les Gay, and tive on their cultural position”; another paper “Introducing Institutional Com- Paul Greene), has decided to make said “Lechner’s dissertation is both munalism: Rupture and Continuity an unprecedented move to honor two meticulous in its method and passion- in the Sitar of Lucknow.” The com- winning applicants in a joint award. ate about its subjects. In view of the mittee found Katz’s paper, exploring Both winners have delivered articles second definition of the prize—writing the intertwining relationship between that exhibit skillfully rendered scholar- on a composer’s (or composers’) use rupture and continuity of the tradi- ship that addresses important issues ... of ethnomusicological research tion of the Lucknow sitar within the for both ethnomusicology and popular materials in their creative work—this Bhatkhande Music College, to be a music studies. Both make important certainly stands out.” particularly compelling critical debate theoretical points and both model of complex historical Hindu-Muslim new ethnographic methods for the Kunst Prize conflicts embodied in a contemporary study of music, each in somewhat setting. Congratulations for the honor- different ways. This year’s winners By James Cowdery able mention go to Shalini Ayyagari are: Jeremy Wallach for his article The Jaap Kunst Prize recognizes (University of California, Berkeley) for “Living the Punk Lifestyle in Jakarta,” “the most significant article in ethno- her paper “Performing Tradition and and David Novak, for his article “2.5 x musicology written by a member of Selling Seduction: The Staging of a 6 Metres of Space: Japanese Mu- the Society for Ethnomusicology and Hereditary Musician Community from sic Coffeehouses and Experimental published within the previous year Rajasthan, India.” Practices of Listening.” (whether in the journal Ethnomusicol- ogy or elsewhere).” As we did last Lise Waxer Prize Wong-Tolbert Prize year, we agreed that “significant” should indicate opening up a new By Paul Greene By Tong Soon Lee vista, such as a new methodology, The Lise Waxer Prize is awarded The Wong-Tolbert Prize recog- subject area, theoretical approach, annually by the Popular Music nizes the most distinguished student etc. The winner for 2009 is Freder- Section to recognize the most dis- paper related to women and music ick Moehn for “Music, Mixing, and tinguished student paper in the presented at the SEM annual confer- Modernity in Rio de Janeiro,” which ethnomusicology of popular music ence. This year’s prize was awarded the prize committee described as presented at the previous year’s SEM to Tes Slominski (New York Universi- “an ethnographic case study written conference. The Waxer Prize comes ty) for the paper, “For Ireland I would with scholarly maturity that sets it in a with an award of $200. The com- Tell Her Name: Gendering Biography complex and well-theorized context” mittee consisted of Kristin McGee in Irish Traditional Music Studies.” and “an outstanding example of using (Chair), Heather Miller, Kevin Fellezs, local concepts as key metaphors to and Josh Duchan. The 2009 winner Marcia Herndon Award unpack histories of meanings and of the Lise Waxer prize is Tyler Bick- practices.” ford of Columbia University, for the By Henry Spiller paper “Media Consumption as Social The Gender and Sexualities Task- Charles Seeger Prize Organization at a New England Pub- force (GST) Section of the Society for lic School.” Ethnomusicology created the an- By Tomie Hahn nual Marcia Herndon Award to honor The prize, named in honor of Richard Waterman Prize exceptional ethnomusicological work ethnomusicologist Charles Seeger, in gender and sexuality including, but is awarded to the most outstanding By Paul Greene and Frank Gunderson not limited to, works that focus upon student paper delivered at the annual The Richard Waterman Prize is lesbian, gay, bisexual, two-spirited, conference of the Society of Ethno- awarded every year by the Popu- homosexual, transgendered and musicology. This year the Charles lar Music Section to recognize the multiple gender issues and com- Seeger Prize Committee—Patricia best article by a junior scholar in the munities. The 2009 award goes to Campbell, Frank Gunderson, Mat- ethnomusicological study of popular Stephanie Doktor (then a graduate thew Sakakeeny, and Tomie Hahn, music published within the previous student at the University of Georgia chair—read sixty graduate student year, in any publication. The Water- and currently at the University of papers that were presented at the man Prize comes with a cash award Virginia) for her paper, “Covering 2008 SEM conference. The wide of up to $200. For the purposes of the Track, (Un)Covering Gender: variety of topics and areas studies this award, “junior scholar” is defined PJ Harvey, Björk, and The Rolling was staggering and the commit- as any scholar, regardless of em- Stones’ ‘Satisfaction,’” presented at tee felt this was an indication of the ployment status, who received his or the 53rd SEM meeting at Wesleyan promising future of our field. Two her PhD no more than seven years University. The prize committee noted papers quickly rose to the top and prior to the submission year. This Continued on page 19 14 SEM Newsletter students, and staff, as well as with to the SEM strategic plan, which SEM Crossroads matters of diversity that can be ad- calls for increased contributions by Project dressed by recruitment and retention, ethnomusicologists to civic life and By Lei Ouyang Bryant and by consistent and informed lead- public policy-making, to encompass ership. The complexities of diversity principles of diversity, (d) building The SEM Crossroads Project met require institutional support to over- alliances across organizations such at UCLA and again in Mexico City haul a system of inequities, and entail as National Association of Schools to further SEM interests in address- a far more substantive response of Music (NASM) and Association of ing diversity in its many dimensions than a music department’s offering a American College and Universities within the academy, in K-12 schools ‘world music course,’ or a high school (AAC&U) and (e) a general call for and community colleges, and across choir’s singing a gospel song. SEM members to think and act with the public sector. Co-chairs Steve At Mexico City, a representative diversity in mind. Loza and Lei Ouyang Bryant con- panel from the Crossroads Project The Crossroad Project is intent on vened 13 members of the committee underscored the central concerns and raising and maintaining awareness at UCLA in June 2009 with support components of an action plan to ad- of diversity issues and encouraging from Vice-Provost Rocina Becerra’s dress systems of inequities. In prog- possibilities for developing sensitiv- Office for Faculty Development and ress are (a) discussions with mem- ity across all facets of professional Diversity and the Department of bers of SEM special interest groups activities relevant to music, educa- Ethnomusicology at UCLA and Lester (SIGs), sections, and committees on tion, and culture. All are invited to Monts’ Office for Diversity at the Uni- ways to develop directives on diver- raise challenges and seek potential versity of Michigan. The Crossroads sity, (b) development of emphases solutions, so that SEM can motivate Project is concerned with equity and on diversity at SEM’s ‘ground-floor’ change in places where ethnomusi- representation as it pertains to faculty, chapter meetings, (c) attunement cologists work and are influential.

Resolution of Thanks By Katherine Hagedorn Katherine Hagedorn read the resolution of thanks she composed at the General Membership Meeting (November 20, 2009) at the 54th Annual Meeting of SEM in Mexico City. —editor

Whereas this is the first time la Sociedad de Etnomusicología se reune in the beautiful, international Ciudad de México, Distrito Federal Whereas we have talked, musicked, listened, dined, and communed con la gente amable, culta, y cosmopólita del DF—los llamados “chilangos” Whereas we have recepted en el Museo Nacional de Antropología, en la sombra de los Toltec, los Aztec, los Maya Whereas we have benefited from más que sesenta ponencias de académicos de México yAmérica Latina Whereas we have been hosted in luxury and style in the Gran Meliã Hotel, una sinfonía rosada Whereas we have eaten comida riquísima aquí—para chuparse los dedos Whereas the conference continua por la noche, el sábado, y el domingo Whereas we will leave here poorer in pocket but richer in spirit; Be it resolved that though this may be the first time we meet in Mexico, no sea la última vez Be it resolved that we thank each and every person quien trabajaba para que esta reunión sea una realidad—especí- ficamente: Be it resolved that we offer gracias profundas al program committee y al program chair, Brenda Romero Be it resolved that we offer bendiciones amplias al local arrangements committee, al local arrangements chair, Guill- ermo Contreras, y al local arrangements secretary, Alejandro Madrid Be it resolved that we offer agradecimientos sinceros a todos los voluntarios, y especialmente al Volunteer Coordina- tor, Iskra Alexandra Rojo Be it resolved that we thank our many institutional conference hosts, listed in the program in all their acronymic glory: CONACULTA, INBA, INAH, UNAM, MNCP-DGCP, CDI, SC, FONART, as well as el MIM de Phoenix, Arizona. Finally, be it resolved that we offer gracias profundas a Luís Alfonso Estrada, director of the National School of Mu- sic, UNAM, for making the initial invitation in 2001 to host SEM in 2009, and to our dear colleague Dan Sheehy, who worked very hard to make this meeting a reality. Our thoughts and prayers are with you, Dan. May you all enjoy health, happiness, peace, and prosperity, as well as an enduring spirit of thanksgiving.

SEM Newsletter 15 Weapons of Mass In- approach and then pass the symboli- these two-way digital communications cally important moment of “peak oil,” can be awkward and technologically struction we will be extracting less and less challenging in the present. But we continued from page 1 crude at higher and higher extraction should be experimenting and refining where print copies may be scarce. costs, and so the cost of goods and our efforts, at first concentrating on We would not do away with the print services dependent on fossil fuels our dialogue with our colleagues in version in the foreseeable future, but is expected to ramp up quickly and the farthest reaches of the globe, but one could opt to access the Journal in permanently. progressively opening up the con- its online version. More on this in later What can and should we do now ference as a truly global, mediated Newsletters—stay tuned! to anticipate the challenges that will interaction. We don’t yet possess the My interest in the rapid digitaliza- arise to our meeting as a Society in business plan to make this a reality tion of our communications organs the decades ahead? First we should (conference fees help to run the Soci- and intellectual resources is in part change the way we meet. Those ety), and we will have lots of work to a response to one of the chief chal- in Mexico saw pyramids of empty do to improve our use of the technol- lenges facing the academy today: the plastic water bottles after every panel ogy, but we should follow up on the wholesale reconfiguration of knowl- and in the lobby after every refresh- great work done at the Wesleyan edge, culture, communications (in- ment break. Although the Hotel was conference and move relentlessly in cluding teaching and publishing), the certainly using bottled water to reas- this direction with each conference ownership of ideas and expressions, sure our attendees about the safety under our belts. and the media in the digital age. It of the water we were drinking, let’s The Society for Ethnomusicology also responds to perhaps the greatest resolve to never again produce this and I are the same age, born in the challenge of our age: the narrow win- kind of profligate waste in order to same year. We were both children dow available to our species to rein in keep ourselves hydrated. Let’s bring of the end of World War II and of the and mitigate a global environmental our own cups and drink from pitchers industrial / commercial/ consump- catastrophe of our own making. of cool tap water in LA and beyond. tion culture that was unleashed by And what of our conferences? As I propose that we also rethink the Western capitalist prosperity but that those who know me well will testify, “swag,” the imprinted bags handed was also its engine. Military leaders I love SEM conferences, especially out full of paper and trinkets (al- in both World Wars had realized that the chance to come away inspired though I recycle these for reusable contemporary military might was built by some of what we’ve heard, the grocery bags!). Let’s see if we can’t on a steady and reliable flow of oil, opportunity to share our work with bring our own bags, perhaps those and the imperial nations set about colleagues in a face-to-face en- from past conferences and use new restructuring the world’s geopolitical counters, letting loose and getting bags only for those who absolutely make-up to guarantee fuel for military to know new colleagues and find- need them. Let’s carpool and take use, industrial production, and con- ing out more about the ones you do transit to and from the airport. And sumerist prosperity. Indeed my father, know, to say nothing of the meetings, what about accessing the conference and his father before his, worked for and the meals, and the great music website, printing only what you need, Shell Oil and my father later went performances and jams, the danc- or carrying it all around on a small into business of his own, selling lead ing, and the exploration of new or laptop. Reductions in the amount of additives for gasoline. The expansion familiar places. I haven’t missed an printed matter will help us keep the of global studies, of anthropology and SEM conference since I came to my increases in conference registrations ethnomusicology and international first conference in my last year as an to a minimum and will protect more studies, rested on the newfound ease undergraduate student in 1983. trees. What do these trees do? They and economy of global travel, and in- We will, I hope, be meeting as a absorb the carbon released into the deed international bodies of scholars Society for many years to come, but atmosphere by the jets carrying us too embraced the global connectivity there are considerable challenges to conferences! What will all of these that was enabled by hiding the full ahead, made a little more evident by small-scale changes accomplish? Not costs of petroglobalization. our meeting in Mexico City. Although much, to be frank, but it will help to We stand at the end of that road, there was palpable excitement gener- minimize the environmental impact of looking out over an abyss that will not ated by our choice of the Mexico site, our conferences. be bridged with the move to sustain- in the end fewer people who weren’t The larger challenge comes in the able fuel sources. Increasingly the full giving papers decided to come. Many form of the air travel itself. This will costs of the reliance on fossil fuels— had lost some or all of the traditional become more and more of a barrier including the trillions of dollars that travel support afforded by universities to our colleagues in far-flung locales will be directed to forestalling environ- for conference attendance, and travel attending conferences. I hope that we mental collapse and global warming, has become more expensive (and will make great strides in the next few the clean-up costs of toxic sites, and certainly less enjoyable) in recent conferences in creating opportunities the costs of the roads and parking years. But the increased prices and to link our proceedings with those lots and suburban sprawl resulting diminished support are just, unfortu- who want to experience some of the from this addiction—will be rolled nately, the tip of the iceberg. As we conferences at the other end of a dig- into the cost of energy; and as this ital connection. I fully recognize that Continued on page 18 16 SEM Newsletter welcomes collaborations with individ- Center for World Music Programs Announcements uals and other projects for preserva- Abroad 2010 SEM Member Access to EVIA Digi- tion and access to ethnographic video The Center for World Music is tal Archive recordings. please to announce its Programs The Society for Ethnomusicol- The EVIA Digital Archive Project Abroad 2010: cultural tours and ogy is pleased to announce that is a collaboration between Indiana hands-on workshops in Indonesia, SEM members are among the first to University and the University of Michi- Africa, China, Turkey, and Peru. have free access to The EVIA Digital gan, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Indonesian Encounters 2010 Archive Project’s online collection of Foundation. Additional information (June 16-July 11): a two-week work- richly annotated ethnographic field about the EVIA Project collections, shop in Bali, Payangan Festival of video. The raw field video preserved digital media, technical issues, and Music and Dance, and a one-week and presented by the EVIA Project project research and development is Performing Arts Tour of Java. Cost is designed to be an educational available at the site. $3,295. Directors and guides: Wayan resource for research, teaching, All individual SEM members may Tubek and Lewis Peterman. and scholarly publication. The work access this initial round of collec- African Encounters 2010 (July of ethnomusicologists, folklorists, tions by going to http://eviada.org and 29-August 20): a two-week work- shop on the Gulf of Guinea and a five-day tour of the cultural highlights of Southern Ghana. Cost $3,495. Directors and guides: Alidu Alhassan, Kwame Degbor, and John Gabriel. Beijing and Beyond 2010 (July 14-August 5): focus on guqin perfor- mance. Visits to Taoist sanctuaries and historical sites, and performanc- es of traditional music. Cost $3,695. Directors: Wang Peng and Jia Wu Xuan. Coordinators: Juan-Juan Meng and Alexander Khalil. Istanbul and Beyond (March 26-April 4): visits to museums and palaces, fasil music, mehter band music, whirling dervishes, an Otto- man banquet, shopping in the Grand Bazaar. Cost $2,495. Tour guides: Kamil Güller and Lewis Peterman. Screenshot from EVIA Andes and Beyond (June 27- July 20): a two-week music workshop anthropologists, and dance scholars logging onto the archive in this way: in Cusco, with guest artist demonstra- are presented in the online collections Username: [Family name][first three tions, and visits to major Incan ruin now available. A collection contains letters of given name]. The first letter sites including Machu Picchu. A third at least ten hours of video with ac- of the family name should be capital- week culminates with the Paucart- companying descriptive annotations, ized but the first letter of the given ambo Dance Festival. Tiered cost. including a bibliography, glossary, ci- name should not be capitalized. (For Director and guide: Holly Wissler. tations, controlled vocabulary, as well example, the username for Juanita For additional information and as text transcriptions and translations. Fernandez would be Fernandezjua. on-line application forms, please visit Eight collections are initially avail- Ur-Ping HUANG would be Huan- (website) centerforworldmusic.org/ able containing research materials on gurp.) Password: Use the same pass- tours/tours.html or contact Dr. Lewis performance traditions from around code you use when logging into the Peterman at (email) peterman@mail. the world. Each of these collections members’ area of the SEM website. If sdsu.edu or (phone) 619-440-7046. has been peer reviewed and some of you do not know your SEM passcode, the collection annotations are compa- visit the members’ login page of the Ethnomusicology Multimedia (EM) rable in length to a small monograph. SEM website (www.ethnomusicology. Indiana University Press, Kent The Online Search and Browse org) and choose the link to have your State University Press, and Temple allows users to playback video, read SEM username and passcode sent University Press have been awarded annotations, search by keyword, to you. If you have difficulties with a five-year implementation grant of browse by subject terms, and create this log in send an email to eviada@ $877,000 by the Andrew W. Mellon and email playlists. The archive is ac- indiana.edu. In addition, non-SEM Foundation to develop and publish tively building its collections and will members and students can access Ethnomusicology Multimedia (EM), periodically post calls for submission the collections by requesting a login on its website. The EVIA Project also through the site. Continued on page 18 SEM Newsletter 17 Announcements tion and Analysis Digital Archive sity presses to develop a website that (EVIADA) and Institute for Digital Arts will bring the music and performances continued from page 17 and Humanities (IDAH) to develop that ethnomusicologists study ever a collaborative series of first books software that accommodates the more vividly to the readers of ethno- in ethnomusicology to be accom- needs of the authors, publishers, musicology books.” panied by a web-based platform for and readers of EM books. The three hosting audio and video materials presses will also work cooperatively African Music (Vol. 8, No. 3) integral to the authors’ research. on editing, production, and marketing The International Library of African The implementation grant follows a of the books in the series. Publication Music (ILAM) is pleased to announce one-year $80,000 Mellon planning of the first books and the launch of that the 2009 issue of its journal, grant awarded to the three presses in the website are projected for 2011. Af- (Volume 8, Number 3), is 2008. Will Underwood, Director of Kent rican Music available. To subscribe, visit the ILAM According to Janet Rabinowitch, State University Press, is “thrilled that website http://www.ilam.ru.ac.za/. We Director of Indiana University Press, the Mellon Foundation has awarded are also pleased to announce that “this exciting and groundbreak- support for our three presses to back issues of and its ing initiative grows out of university develop Ethnomusicology Multimedia. African Music predecessor, presses’ efforts to experiment with We expect EM to become the ‘go to’ African Music Society , will soon be available innovative publishing models and place online for audiovisual material Newsletter via JSTOR. Submissions for Volume technologies.” Because of the multi- in ethnomusicology.” 8, Number 4 (2010) are now being disciplinary character of the ethnomu- Alex Holzman, Director of Temple accepted and can be sent as Word sicology field, the EM series and its University Press, declared, “This is attachments to (email) d.thram@ multimedia platform promise impor- precisely the sort of collaboration ru.ac.za. Inquiries are welcome. tant impacts. The new combinations among presses and other organiza- Authors are asked to submit original of scholarly inquiry and methods of tions within the university that will pro- articles and book, CD, and film/DVD dissemination, across disciplines and duce innovations that will be critical to reviews. Edited by ILAM’s Director, media, will benefit scholarly commu- advancing scholarly communication Diane Thram, is a peer- nication everywhere. in the twenty-first century.” African Music reviewed annual publication devoted To develop the web-based plat- Ruth Stone, Director of IDAH, to enhancement of knowledge and form, the three presses will col- expressed particular pleasure “that understanding of African music on the laborate with Indiana University’s the IU Institute for Digital Arts and Hu- continent and in the world at large. Ethnomusicological Video for Instruc- manities will partner with the univer-

Weapons of Mass In- over the decades with members of I will, I hope, not become preachy so-called “indigenous” societies, and about such things, but I plan to use struction from the arctic to tropical rainforests my President’s Column, which I am continued from page 16 to island nations, these peoples cheekily calling “Weapons of Mass In- takes shape, the globalized praxis of are experiencing the leading edge struction,” to focus on areas in which learned societies and of disciplines consequences of the rise in global we have an opportunity to engage dedicated to intercultural dialogue will temperatures and of the unsus- more directly with issues that confront be transformed and will eventually be tainable strip-mining of the earth’s us as scholar-citizens and musical- unrecognizable. organic and subterranean resources. citizens in the 21st century. I will bring This column is being written in Most of our members have worked in few answers to these interventions, the opening days of the Copenha- developing or subaltern societies, and but I am most comfortable in the role gen climate change summit meet- in many of those regions, the effects of agent provocateur, and so will ing, and so the world’s attention is of a global rise in temperatures will continue in that vein while occupying briefly drawn to the need to radically be tantamount to genocide. Deserts the office of SEM President. change human behavior. It is likely will spread, drinking water will van- Starting with the next SEM Annual that the world’s leaders will agree to a ish, seas will rise, and storms will Meeting in Los Angeles, I will link the framework that everyone will promptly increase in amplitude. Famine, mass President’s Roundtable to a speaker ignore. But whether the leaders of migration, resource wars, disease from outside of the Society weighing the industrialized nations show true and the rampant loss of cultural re- in on issues of advocacy and engage- leadership is beside the point—the sources will result. ment, and I will be outlining some engine of true change resides with Our disciplinary interests in a of the issues I hope to deal with in the choices, decisions, and actions world that looks strikingly dissimilar this column. I would like to thank the of individuals and groups all over the from the description above should Long-Range Planning Committee, planet. light fires under all of us to take and especially Donna Buchanan, for Our Society has a special window individual and collective responsibil- support for this notion, and also my into the effects of climate change and ity. This recognition will guide many friend Louise Meintjes, whose two- environmental degradation. Some of my actions and recommenda- word advice for the new SEM Presi- of our members will have worked tions as President of your Society. dent was simple: “Be transgressive.” 18 SEM Newsletter Calls mentioned processes, music has often played a central role, either in a British Forum for Eth- continued from page 13 direct or an indirect way: music and nomusicology (BFE) its representations mediate national tions, and special sessions on any ideologies and various viewpoints, Conference topic related to historical musicology, such as Orientalism, Balkanism, St. John’s College, Oxford, April 8-11, ethnomusicology, or . and Occidentalism, which have a 2010 In accordance with the traditions of particular relationship with history in The 2010 British Forum for Eth- the chapters, papers will be limited the Balkans. Simultaneously, music to twenty minutes. We welcome nomusicology (BFE) Conference, on is mediated through space and time, the theme of “Music Knowledge,” will submissions from every member of through various means of documen- the societies, but we do ask that any be held at the Faculty of Music and tation and transmission (orality, visual in St. John’s College Oxford, April student proposal be accompanied arts, photographs, written text, scores by an email message of support 8-11, 2010. The keynote speaker and recordings). will be Steven Feld (Distinguished from a faculty advisor. Please sub- Against this background and in the mit proposals by Monday, February Professor of Anthropology and Music, light of the current political expansion University of New Mexico). Oxford is 15, including a title, abstract of 250 of the EU in the Balkan area, the ex- words, your name as it should appear easily reached from London, Birming- ploration of issues related to cultural ham, and Heathrow airport (about an on the program, institutional affilia- identity and relations to the Ottoman tion, email address, phone number, hour from each). As well access to past gains more prominence and great papers, notable keynotes, and and audio/visual equipment needs. requires a critical, interdisciplinary Electronic submissions in the form of exuberant discussions, those attend- dialogue. In particular, the changes ing the conference will have the run email attachments in MS Word format that the EU expansion will bring are preferred. Send SEM proposals of the city and its music at the most about to the existing structures of beautiful time of year. For more infor- to Janet Sturman at (email) stur- Balkan societies, cultures and cultural [email protected]. Send AMS pro- mation, see the conference website policies from a musical point of view at http://www.bfeconference.org.uk. posals to John T. Brobeck at (email) remain to be addressed. [email protected]. Send SMT This conference welcomes inno- proposals to Don Traut at (email) vative interdisciplinary (e.g., ethno- [email protected]. Surface musicology, history, anthropology, mail submission should go to Janet cultural studies) papers addressing Sturman (SEM), John T. Brobeck the following topics: (AMS), or Don Traut (SMT) at The • How Orientalism, Balkanism, and Prizes School of Music, The University of Occidentalism are expressed and continued from page 14 Arizona, P.O. Box 210004, 1017 N constituted through music and its Olive Rd, Tucson, AZ 85721. Details representations in the Balkans that the presentation unpacked a on registration and accommodations • Nationalism mediated through complex performance of queerness will appear on the SEM-SW website, music and vice versa (in the form of a cover of the Rolling http://www.u.arizona.edu/~sturman/ • Music, propaganda and the Stones’s “Satisfaction”) by Björk and SEMSW/SEMSWhome.html. media: radio, television, the press PJ Harvey with sophistication, insight, and the internet and verve. The Ottoman Past in the Balkan • Beyond music: analyzing Balkan Present: Music and Mediation soundscapes as products of the AKMR Best Student Paper Prize The Finnish Institute at Athens & past The Association for Korean Music Department of Turkish and Modern Abstracts (maximum 300 words) Research (AKMR) awarded its Best Asian Studies, University of Athens, for papers and poster presentations Student Paper Prize to Choi Yoonjah September 30 - October 2, 2010 should be submitted by February 15, (City University of New York Gradu- 2010, to (email) conf2010@turkmas. Deadline: February 15, 2010 ate Center) for her paper, “Gender uoa.gr. The languages of the confer- Dynamics in Korean Drumming: Through the ages, the Balkans ence are English and Greek. Please Perspective of ‘Resistance’ of Korean has experienced various political, specify possible audio/visual needs. Women Drummers.” cultural and social phases. The All abstracts will be reviewed and au- peninsula has been conceptualized in thors will be notified about the results a number of different, often compet- by April 14, 2010. Martin Hatch Award ing and contrasted, ways (Byzantine, Keynote Speakers include Prof. The Society for Asian Music Ottoman, Balkan, East, Eastern Derek B. Scott, University of Leeds awarded the Martin Hatch Award for Europe) in academic and other and Prof. Cem Behar, Boğaziçi Uni- Best Student Paper to Justin Scarim- discourses. However, in one way or versity. For more information, contact bolo (University of California, Santa another, the long period of Ottoman (email) [email protected] Barbara) for his paper, “Reassess- rule constitutes an integral aspect of or visit (website) http://www.turkmas. ing the Shift from Muslim to Hindu all those perceptions. In the afore- uoa.gr/conf2010. Dominance.” SEM Newsletter 19 PeoplePrepared by Polaris and Recruitment Places Communications Datecontinued Created from01.26.0711.06.09 page 3 The Ohio State University Lastuse Modified it to continue01.26.0711.06.09 his studies in the in- tellectual history of ethnomusicology, Open Faculty Position in the School of Music Orderthe Number field incmh_14948OSU_27024 which he has taught and in Ad whichDimensions he has2.255 x 9.25 donex 49 agates research since his Position Title and Appointment: Faculty opening in Ethnomusicology, with a specialty in African comingCreated by to UIml in 1964. music. Tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the School of Music; joint appointment Joseph Palackal’s documentary between the School of Music and the Department of African American and African Studies; to begin in Last film,modifiedKerala by MLml the Cradle of Christianity Art Linksin South Verified? Asia:y The Cultural Interface fall 2010. of Music and Religion (English/34 Responsibilities:Teach courses at all levels, undergraduate and graduate, on diverse topics in minutes), was selected for the 7th ethnomusicology, notably including African and African American music cultures. Direct theses and Queens International Film Festival dissertations. Maintain the level of scholarly and service contributions appropriate for a faculty member (website www.queensfilmfestival. com). The script of the film, which at a major research university. was produced by the Christian Musi- Contribute to the leadership, curriculum development, and administration of the OSU ethnomusicology cological Society of India, is based on program. The ability to lead a student ensemble of African music and dance is desirable. Palackal’s doctoral dissertation at the Required Qualifications: Ph.D. preferably in ethnomusicology with a specialty in African music; CUNY Graduate Center (2005). The narrative follows the events that led experience in field research in Africa; excellence, and future promise, in teaching and scholarship. We to the introduction of the Chaldean, seek a dynamic teacher and scholar who will enhance the strength of the current program in Antiochene, Roman Catholic, Angli- ethnomusicology, and promote interdisciplinary collaboration with other departments and programs can, and other liturgies along with the within the University. Qualified ethnomusicologists at the early stages of their professional career are musical styles associated with them. encouraged to apply. Drawing attention to the lesser known aspects of the religious, musical, and Ohio State’s program in ethnomusicology ethnomusicology.osu.edu, offering the M.A. and Ph.D. linguistic complexity of the region, the degrees, is affiliated with a major graduate program in historical musicology music.osu.edu/node/61 at film presents Kerala as a potential the School of Music music.osu.edu. Ethnomusicology program works closely with several other field for inquiries in an emerging area of scholarship on Christian music programs, particularly in cognitive sciences, music cognition, psychology, languages, area studies, in India. For more information, see folklore, dance, and comparative studies. Reflecting an ongoing commitment of the university, (website) www.TheCMSIndia.org. substantial funding supports student fieldwork, research laboratory, graduate assistantships, and W. Robert (Rob) Hodges earned visiting artists and scholars. The School of Music offers a broad selection of degrees on the baccalaureate, his PhD in ethnomusicology from UC master’s, and doctoral levels. The Department of African American and African Studies aaas.osu.edu Santa Barbara in September of 2009. offers both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Department faculty engage in substantial research, His dissertation, titled “Ganti Andung, Gabe Ende (Replacing Laments, Be- including fieldwork. The department also has a highly regarded African Languages program. Both the coming Hymns): The Changing Voice School of Music and the Department of African American and African Studies are units in the Arts and of Grief in the Pre-funeral Wakes of Humanities, part of the Colleges of the Arts and Sciences artsandsciences.osu.edu. The Ohio State Protestant Toba Batak (North Su- University is located in Columbus, a metropolitan area in central Ohio osu.edu. matra, Indonesia),” focuses on the ways in which Protestant Toba Batak Application and Closing Date: Compensation will be commensurate with educational background mourn their dead through song during and experience. Review of applications begins on December 4, 2009; applications may be submitted the wake period prior to the burial of older Toba Batak. It investigates the until the position is filled. way in which such musical practices Applicants should submit a detailed letter of interest, brief description of contain and convey meaning, cultural relevant experience, statement of teaching philosophy and research program, value, and identity in the present day. and curriculum vitae. Please include the names and contact data for three Rob’s dissertation is based upon experiences drawn from seven years references and ask your referees to send their letters directly to the address in the Toba Batak region of Sumatra below. Please do not send any audio or video samples at this time. Send as well as on research carried out in application materials to the following address: 2002 through a Fulbright-Hays Dis- Joint Search in Ethnomusicology, sertation Research Abroad fellowship. School of Music, Ohio State University Rob completed his dissertation under the guidance of Dr. Scott Marcus, Dr. 1866 College Rd, Columbus, OH 43210 Timothy Cooley, and Dr. Dolores Hsu. E-mail: [email protected] Currently, Rob is an adjunct instructor To build a diverse workforce Ohio State encourages applications from individuals with disabilities, minorities, veterans, and in music at Porterville College, a com- women. EEO/AA employer munity college in central California.

20 SEM Newsletter Charlottesville, VA. For more infor- Studies (VAD): “Continuities, Conferences Calendar mation, see (website) http://www. Dislocations and Transformations: macsem.org/ Reflections on 50 Years of African 2010 Independence,” Johannes Guten- Mar 17-19 Feb 19-21 berg University Mainz, Germany. Musicology in the 3rd Millennium, First International Conference on For more information, see (web- Sokos Hotel Lakeus, Seinäjoki, Analytical Approaches to World site) http://wp1140687.wp127. Finland. For more informa- Music, University of Massachu- webpack.hosteurope.de/ setts, Amherst, MA. For more tion, see (website) www.siba. information, contact Lawrence fi/3rdmillennium2010/symposium Apr 8-10 Shuster at (email) lshuster@mu- Preserving Tradition: Facing the Mar 24-27 sic.umass.edu Future, Sydney Conservatorium of 70th Annual Meeting of the So- Music, Macquarie Street, Sydney, ciety for Applied Anthropology, Mar 6 Australia. For more information Mérida, Yucatan, México. For Columbia Music Scholarship please see (website) http://www. more information, see (website) Conference 2010, Columbia Uni- music.usyd.edu.au/international/ http://www.sfaa.net versity, New York, NY. For more symposium/ information, contact (email) musi- Mar 26-27 [email protected] Apr 8-11 Southeast and Caribbean Re- 2010 British Forum for Ethno- gional Chapter (SEMSEC) Annual Mar 6 musicology Conference, Faculty Meeting, School of Music, Uni- SEM Northern California Chapter of Music and St. John’s College versity of North Carolina Greens- Annual Meeting, UC Santa Cruz, Oxford, UK. For more information, boro, NC. For more information, Santa Cruz, CA. For more infor- see (website) http://www.bfecon- see (website) http://myweb.fsu. mation, see (website) http://www. ference.org.uk santarosa.edu/~mdvorins/nccsem/ edu/fgunderson/ Apr 9-11 Apr 7-11 Mar 13-14 International Association for the Biennial conference of the Ger- SEM Mid-Atlantic Chapter Annual Study of Popular Music, U.S. Meeting, University of Virginia, man Association for African Continued on page 22

Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology

Celebrating 25 Years (1984 – 2009)

A special 25th anniversary issue now available online: http://www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/pre/ PRE welcomes submissions on a rolling basis from colleagues in ethnomusicology and all cognate disciplines. Articles are accepted in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, and others on a case-by-case basis. We encourage the use of our online format by submitting audio, video, and color photographs to accompany articles. We also now accept submissions of ethnographic video documentaries for peer review and online publication. For further information and PDF files of all back issues, please visit the website above. Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology 2539 Schoenberg Music Building, Box 951657 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1657 E-mail: [email protected]

SEM Newsletter 21 Conferences Calendar Annual Conference, Chateau Fourth Biennial Conference, Bourbon, 800 Iberville Street, New Drake University, Des Moines, IA. Continued from page 21 Orleans, LA. For more informa- For more information, see (web- Branch (IASPM-US) Annual tion, see (website) http://www. site) http://www.nabmsa.org Conference, New Orleans, LA. For arsc-audio.org/conference/ more information, see (website) Sep 10-11 http://www.iaspm-us.net/ Jun 16-19 Humanities of the Lesser-Known, Ideologies and Ethnics in the Centre for Languages and Litera- Apr 16-17 Uses and Abuses of Sound, Koli, ture, Lund University, Sweden. For SEM Southwest Chapter Annual Finland. For more information, more information, see (website) Meeting, Univ. of Arizona School see (website) http://www.joensuu. http://conference.sol.lu.se/en/hlk- of Music, Tucson, AZ. For more fi/soundscapes 2010/ information, see (website) http:// www.u.arizona.edu/~sturman/ July 1-4 Sep 30 - Oct 2 SEMSW/SEMSWhome.html “Musical Translations across the The Ottoman Past in the Balkan Mediterranean,” 8th Meeting of the Present: Music and Mediation, Apr 17 ICTM “Study Group for the Anthro- Department of Turkish and Mod- SEM Southern Plains Chapter pology of Music in Mediterranean ern Asian Studies, University of (SEM-SP) 2010 Annual Meeting, Cultures,” University of Malta. For Athens, Greece. For more infor- University of Oklahoma, Norman, more information, contact Marcello mation, see (website) http://www. OK. For more information, see Sorce Keller at (email) mskeller@ turkmas.uoa.gr/conf2010 (website) http:// www.semsouth- ticino.com ernplains.org Nov 11-14 Jul 19-30 55th Annual Meeting of SEM, May 15-17 Joint Meeting: ICTM Music and Wilshire Grand Hotel, Los Ange- SEM Midwest Chapter Annual Minorities Study Group & Applied les, CA. Meeting, University of Minnesota, Ethnomusicology Study Group, Minneapolis, Minnesota. For more Hanoi, Vietnam. For more infor- 2011 information, see (website) http:// mation, contact Ursula Hemetek at sem-midwest.osu.edu/ (email) [email protected] Jul 13-19 ICTM 41st World Congress, St. May 19-22 Jul 29 - Aug 1 John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. 44th Annual Association for Re- North American British Music For more information, see (web- corded Sound Collections (ARSC) Studies Association (NABMSA) site) http://www.mun.ca/ictm2011/

Volume 44, Number 1 January 2010

22 SEM Newsletter The Society for Ethnomusicology–2010 Annual Meeting Call for Proposals

The Society for Ethnomusicology will hold its 55th Annual Meeting on 11-14 November 2010 at the Wilshire Grand Hotel in Los Angeles, hosted by the University of California at Los Angeles. For information on all meeting arrangements and for updates, please visit www.ethnomusicology.org and select “Conferences.”

The theme for the 2010 Annual Meeting will be “Sound Ecologies.” Following a keen interest in environments and soundscapes, topics will include the following:

1) Music Displacement and Disaster 2) Music, Copyrights, and Human Rights 3) Music and Social Activism 4) Film Music

Proposals on these topics will be given priority by the Program Committee. SEM sections, special interest groups, committees, and other constituent units are encouraged to sponsor organized sessions on or relevant to these topics, though the Program Committee will not give extra weight to sponsorship. Proposals on any other topics relevant to the field of ethnomusicology, including dance, are also welcome. We encourage informal heuristic sessions on The Development of Public Spaces for the Profession, Musical Analysis, and Ethnomusicology in the Academy, or on other topics. (An informal heuristic session is a space where conferees gather without formal presentation pieces to brainstorm a specific topic for 1.5 or 2 hours. See Open Forums below.) The online and postmark deadline for submission of all proposals is 15 March 2010.

In conjunction with the Annual Meeting, UCLA will present on 10 November 2010 a Pre-Conference Symposium: “Music Research and Performance in South Asia: The Life and Work of Nazir Jairazbhoy.”

Proposals for the Annual Meeting are invited in ten categories. Please see below for details. All proposals must include a proposal form and an abstract. When submitting a proposal, first select the appropriate form. Note that two types of forms are used for submissions:

1. Individual Presenters Form for single papers, performances or lecture-demonstrations, film/video programs, poster (media) sessions, and workshops (participatory). 2. Organized Sessions Form for organized panels, round tables, workshops (participatory), films/videos, and open forums.

PROPOSALS TO BE SUBMITTED ON THE INDIVIDUAL PRESENTERS FORM

1. Single Papers: Individual paper presentations are 20 minutes long and are followed by 10 minutes of discussion. 2. Performances or Lecture-Demonstrations: Up to one hour long. 3. Film/Video Programs: One recently completed or in-progress film or video program up to two hours long. Sessions may include an introduction and discussion time. Submit title, subject, and introduction/discussion. 4. Poster (Media) Sessions: Display stations will be set up in a room where presenters can exhibit work in a variety of media and remain on hand during scheduled two-hour periods for discussion. Displays might include posters, audio-visual presentations of research, instrument building, as well as written work made available in a form suitable for informal presentation in a table-top display. Special display requirements (e.g., computer and audio/visual equipment) will be the responsibility of the presenter. Displays should be designed with consideration for the other presenters in the room. The abstract for Poster (Media) Sessions should describe the subject, purpose, and physical/audible characteristics of the display, as well as the audio/visual equipment or table space required. 5. Workshops (participatory): Informal, interactive hands-on session on one topic (e.g., music performance, dance, recording technology) for a maximum of two hours. PROPOSALS TO BE SUBMITTED ON THE ORGANIZED SESSIONS FORM

6. Organized Panels. Organized panel sessions are 90 minutes or two hours long. A 90-minute panel consists of three papers. A two-hour panel consists of either four papers or three papers plus a discussant. Each presentation (a paper or a discussant’s formal response) will be 20 minutes long, followed by 10 minutes of questions and general discussion. Panel abstracts will be evaluated individually as well as collectively. The Program Committee reserves the right to suggest the addition of a panelist where an independently submitted abstract appears to fit a panel. (Those interested in a more flexible format with more participants may want to consider proposing a round table.) Proposals for organized panels should be submitted by the panel organizer. Include an abstract describing the rationale for the panel as a whole. This overall panel abstract is the linchpin of the panel, although individual abstracts for each presenter are also necessary. 7. Round Tables: Round table sessions provide opportunities for participants to discuss a subject with each other and with members of the audience. Sessions of up to two hours long should include at least four, but no more than five, presenters. We encourage formats that stimulate discussion and audience participation. The organizer will solicit position papers of up to 10 minutes from each presenter and will facilitate questions and discussion for the remaining time. Proposals for round tables should be submitted by the session organizer and must include an abstract outlining the purpose/agenda and organization of the session, as well as the anticipated contributions of each participant (unnamed in the abstract). The organized session form provides a separate space where participants and their institutional affiliations should be listed. 8. Films/Videos: Multiple presenters of recently completed or in-progress films, video programs, or excerpts, together extending up to two hours. Sessions may include introductions and discussion time. Submit titles, subjects, and introduction/discussion. Also indicate the exact duration of each proposed film, video program, and/or excerpt. The organizer must describe the overall subject of the session. List the participants and their affiliations in the space provided in the organized session form (not in the abstract). 9. Workshops (participatory): Informal, interactive hands-on session on one topic (e.g., music performance, dance, recording technology) for a maximum of two hours. The organizer must submit an abstract describing the subject. List more than one, but no more than five, session leaders, with their affiliations in the space provided in the organized session form (not in the abstract). 10. Open Forums. Informal heuristic session where conferees gather without formal presentation pieces to brainstorm a topic for 1.5 to 2 hours. The organizer must submit an abstract stating the problem to be addressed or the focus of the discussion and its importance. In the organized session form (not in the abstract), list the name(s) of the discussion leader(s) as “discussant(s),” along with the name(s) of the sponsoring section, special interest group, committee, or other constituent unit(s) where applicable. SUBMISSIONS, REQUIREMENTS, AND DEADLINES

About Abstracts: Abstracts should demonstrate a clear focus or statement of the problem, a coherent argument, knowledge of previous research, and a statement of the implications for ethnomusicology. If submitting an abstract proposal online, carefully observe these and other instructions given at the website. If submitting a hard- copy abstract proposal by post, please use single-spaced type and, separate from the body of the abstract, include the presenter’s name and institutional affiliation (for organized session abstracts, the session organizer’s name) and the paper title (for session abstracts, the name of the session).

All abstracts must comply with the following requirements: • Abstracts should appear as a single paragraph. • Abstracts over 250 words will be automatically disqualified. • Abstracts identifying presenters, fellow researchers, or other participants will not be accepted. • Abstracts must be submitted online or postmarked by 15 March 2010.

Limit on the number of presentations: SEM policy specifies that, during the regular sessions of the Annual Meeting, an individual may participate in ONLY ONE of the following ways:

• Give one paper (individually or as part of an organized panel) • Act as a discussant for a panel or a discussion leader for an open forum • Participate in one round table, workshop, performance, or lecture-demonstration • Participate in one poster session • Present one film/video program

In addition, an individual may chair ONE panel, round table, or workshop. Therefore, an individual may submit ONLY ONE abstract proposal. (Organizers of panels may submit an individual presenter abstract as well as the panel abstract.)

Pre-registration and SEM membership fees: Following SEM policy, all participants whose proposals have been accepted for the program must be SEM members and must pre-register for the meeting by 2 August. This requirement applies also to those who have agreed to be waitlisted. Guest speakers at sessions sponsored by SEM constituent units must be SEM members and must pre-register for the meeting. If necessary, sections should arrange to use their dues to cover membership and registration fees for their guest speakers.

Notification of acceptance: SEM members whose proposals have been accepted will be sent pre- registration information around June 7. If by 2 July you have not received a message from the Program Committee indicating whether or not your abstract was accepted, please contact Drew Norris, SEM Conference Coordinator, at Indiana University Conferences at [email protected].

Cancellations and no-shows: No-shows inconvenience the chair, discussant, fellow panelists, and audience members attending the session. Participants who discover that they are unable to attend the meeting should notify the Program Committee Chair and [email protected] immediately. SEM policy does not permit anyone other than the author to read a paper. Pre-registration cancellations made after 7 September will not qualify for a refund.

Special requests: Please indicate potential scheduling conflicts to the Program Committee Chair. If notified in advance, the Program Committee will attempt to accommodate requests, but cannot guarantee a particular time slot.

Charles Seeger Prize: Students interested in having a paper considered for the Charles Seeger Prize should consult the guidelines on the SEM website (www.ethnomusicology.org) under “Prizes.” Submission and Contact Information

For online submissions of abstracts: Go to www.ethnomusicology.org and select “Conferences.” Submission deadline: 15 March 2010.

For postal submissions of abstracts: Telephone the SEM Business Office at (812) 855-6672 to request a form for postal submissions. Postmark deadline: 15 March 2010. Submit form and abstract to: Indiana University Conferences Attn: SEM 2010 ABSTRACT SUBMISSION 801 North Jordan Street Bloomington, IN 47405, USA

For general conference questions: [email protected] or (800) 933-9330 (within U.S.) or (812) 855- 4661 (outside U.S.).

For questions of the Program Committee Chair (NOT for proposals or abstracts) and for cancellations: [email protected].

Deadlines

15 March Online submission and postmark deadline for all SEM 2010 proposals. 07 June Notifications of acceptances mailed with pre-registration information. 02 August Deadline for receipt of pre-registration and SEM membership fees from individuals whose proposals were accepted or waitlisted. 07 September Deadline for presenter cancellation and refund of pre-registration fees from SEM members whose proposals were accepted (minus a $35 handling fee). 15 October Registration cancellation refund deadline for non-presenters (minus a $35 handling fee).

SEM 2010 Program Committee

Barbara L. Hampton, Chair (CUNY Graduate Center and Hunter College) Christi-Anne Castro (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) Leslie Gay (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (University of Winchester, UK and University of California, Santa Barbara) Timothy Rommen (University of Pennsylvania)

SEM 2010 Local Arrangements Committee

Tara Browner, Chair (University of California at Los Angeles) Ric Alviso (California State University, Northridge) Katherine Hagedorn (Pomona College) Judy Mitoma (University of California at Los Angeles) Helen Rees (University of California at Los Angeles) Jonathan Ritter (University of California at Riverside) Anthony Seeger (University of California at Los Angeles)