SEM Newsletter Published by the Society for Ethnomusicology Volume 40 Number 1 January 2006 President’s Report 2005 Celebrating SEM’s Next SEM Honolulu 2006: By Timothy Rice, SEM President Fifty Years Call for Proposals I want to begin my president’s re- By Philip V. Bohlman, President-Elect By Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje, 2006 Program Committee Chair port by acknowledging some of the If there was any single message we people who have made this a successful took with us from SEM-Atlanta, it is that year for the Society for Ethnomusicol- The Society for Ethnomusicology we have much to celebrate. Ethnomu- will hold its 51st annual meeting, No- ogy. First, I would like to thank the sicologists have generated important annual meeting Local Arrangements vember 16-19, 2006, in Honolulu, ideas, and the Society for Ethnomusi- Hawai‘i, at the Marriott Waikiki Hotel. Chair, Tong Soon Lee. He was ex- cology has provided a disciplinary fo- tremely successful in finding external Just as there was much anticipation for rum to debate them. Ethnomusicolo- sources of support for this program, the 2005 meeting in Atlanta, we believe gists have risen to the crucial ethical, including the Korea Foundation and that SEM members are also excited political, and ideological challenges of Emory University, organizations that I about visiting Hawai‘i after a quarter of the past century, and the SEM has want to thank as well. Program Com- a century: the last SEM meeting in encouraged rather than discouraged its mittee Co-chairs Bruno Nettl and Judith Honolulu took place in 1981. The members from doing so. Listening to McCulloh have created a program of Hawai‘i meeting will allow the Society the music of many, but never turning to focus on issues of relevance to Hawai‘i staggering complexity, the largest by far away from the music making of those in our Society’s history. Their knowl- and the Pacific region. We are also too few in number to wield real power, planning events and presentations that edge of the history of our field is with- ethnomusicologists remain resolutely out parallel, and their experience, imagi- members normally expect at an annual committed also to music in its diversity meeting. To ensure that the Honolulu nation, and dedication enriched this and in its representation of diversity. program immeasurably. meeting is fully integrated into the dis- Continued on page 6 Continued on page 3 Continued on page 5 Inside SEM Honolulu 2006: SEM 2006 Pre-confer- 1 President’s Report 2005 E Komo Mai! Experi- ence Symposium: Call 1 Celebrating SEM’s Next Fifty Years 1 SEM 2006 Call for Papers ence the Spirit of Aloha! for Paper 1 SEM 2006 in Honolulu By SEM 2006 Local Arrangements By SEM 2006 Local Arrangements 1 SEM 2006 Preconference Committee Committee 7 SEM Prizes and Awards 8 Mantle Hood: A Memoir On behalf of the University of Hawai‘i The Local Arrangements Committee 10 A Half-Century of Monographs in at Manoa (UHM), the Local Arrange- for SEM Honolulu 2006 is pleased to Ethnomusicology ments Committee extends a warm wel- announce the theme of the pre-confer- 11 Announcements come to members of the Society for ence symposium: “‘Whose Asia-Pacific?’: 12 SEM Honorary Members Ethnomusicology to SEM 2006 in Representation and Presentation in Eth- William P. Malm 12 Honolulu. The 51st SEM annual confer- nomusicology.” The conference will be Rulan Chao Pian 14 ence will be held at the Waikiki Beach held on Wednesday, November 15, 2006, Judith McCulloh 16 Marriott Resort & Spa, Honolulu, No- 8:30am-5:00pm at the conference site, Nazir Jairazbhoy 18 vember 16-19, 2006. Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa. 20 2004 President’s Roundtable: UHM is proud and pleased to host Taking advantage of the unique geo- “Diverse Voices” SEM 2006, twenty-five years after the graphical and cultural location of 27 People & Places in Ethnomusicology first meeting in Hawai‘i. One of the Hawai‘i, the symposium will address 28 Guerde Fleurant Honored by Hai- seven islands in the state of Hawai‘i, aspects of representation, cultural rights, tian Studies Association O‘ahu, where the city of Honolulu is advocacy, indigenous cultural politics, 30 Conferences and Workshops situated, is the most developed of the theory and practice of representation in 31 Obituaries for Gerard Béhague and Hawaiian islands. The translation of the Asia and the Pacific. The symposium Isabel Aretz Hawaiian word O‘ahu is appropriately will feature plenary speakers, a 31 Call for Papers Continued on page 6 Continued on page 6 32 Conferences Calendar 2 SEM Newsletter The Society for Ethnomusicology and SEM Newsletter Guidelines the SEM Newsletter Guidelines for Contributors Editor, SEM Newsletter Tong Soon Lee Emory University •Send articles to the editor by e-mail or on a 3.5" disk with a paper copy. 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