SEM {STUDENTNEWS} MUSIC AND MOVEMENT Letter from the Incoming Editor 1 Student Voices: Moving with the Ears, Listening with the Body 3 Audiovisual Frames: INOUÏ Le Patrimoine Musical des Nanterriens 8 Dear SEM 11 Articles Methodological Considerations for Choreomusicology Influenced by Music Cognition 14 Composing with Living 18 Animating Ideas, Evoking Movement 21 The Gurdjieff Movements: Hidden Dances and Archival Discoveries 23 Making Room for Difference: Devotional Circle Dancing 28 The Importance of Dance at Kurdish New Year’s Celebrations 32 Music and Movement: An Annotated Bibliography 37 Our Staff 40 Volume 15, Number 1 | Spring/Summer 2019 Volume Cover image courtesy of Olivia Rojas and Angelina Ramirez, Flamenco Por La Vida; see page 17. Letter from the Incoming Editor We, as ethnomusicologists, live at a juncture which “music” is always considered separate from the of scholarship that samples, borrows, absorbs, other term) we also hope to highlight and question and morphs ideas and approaches from an the liminal space between them. As Dr. Ruth Hellier- interdisciplinary feast of scholarship. Yet we are still Tinoco notes in her response to our “Dear SEM” anchored by the notions of ethnography and musical, prompt (see page 11), “‘Music’ and ‘Dance’ seem or at least sonic, practice as a somewhat defining tenet to create a Great Divide that generates anxiety of our field. The next set of Student News issues will and trepidation, with an awkward ‘us and them’ highlight those junctures, and note how “music” may mentality, and an uncertainty toward those who make be combined with other keywords in a variety of ways crossings over regulated borders or who work without across disciplinary boundaries. This issue, “Music & recognizing such borders.” This is a notable drawback Movement,” is the first in this series; the second will of our approach through binaries; but it is one that highlight “Music & Affect” in the Fall of 2019. can also be beautifully queried by our contributors The idea behind this construct is simple: create through thoughtful engagement, as we see in this a space in our publication for student contributors issue. I hope that the binary “opening gambit” for the to discuss the ideas that, well, “move” them, and next few issues is an instigator for conversation that animate their theoretical engagements in their transcends categorization and leads to the discussions research. However, by creating sets of binaries (in that drive the next wave of research in our field. continued on next page . ISSN 2578-4242 Society for Ethnomusicology © 1 Letter from the Incoming Editor . continued This issue marks the beginning of my tenure of SN, will guide my approach throughout my term, as Editor of Student News, a position I am gratefully either personally or through their example in our accepting as Davin Vidigal Rosenberg steps down back catalog. Many thanks, Davin; and, may I live up after an editorial commitment of over two years. to the task. The depth of creativity, investment, and malleability that Davin has modeled over this period has been Eugenia Siegel Conte inspiring (and also impossibly unattainable)—but I University of California, Santa Barbara know that he, and the other excellent previous editors SEM Student News Archives Vol. 15, No. 1 | Spring/Summer 2019 Vol. } Over the last eight years, we have touched on many topics, including sound and sensory studies, decolonization, the job market, health, diaspora, interdisciplinarity, funding, and more. 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SEM {STUDENTNEWS} SEM {STUDENTNEWS} SEM {STUDENTNEWS} SEM {STUDENTNEWS} SEM {STUDENTNEWS} POLITICS IN & OF ETHNOMUSICOLOGY A publication of MUSIC AND POLITICS An official publication SOUND AND SENSORY STUDIES An official publication ETHNOMUSICOLOGY NOW An official publication DECOLONIZING ETHNOMUSICOLOGY the Society for of the Society for of the Society for of the Society for Letter from the Editor 1 Letter from the SEM President 1 Letter from the Editor 1 Ethnomusicology © Ethnomusicology From the Editor 1 Ethnomusicology Letter from the SEM President 1 Ethnomusicology Student Voices: Who Cares About Ethnomusicology?—Take Two 4 Student Voices: Who Cares About Ethnomusicology? 5 SEM Reports 2 SEM Reports 3 SEM Reports 6 Thoughts from the Field: Translations 8 Thoughts from the Field 10 SEM Regional Chapter Updates 10 Student Voices 5 Student Voices 6 Dear SEM 12 Audiovisual Frames: What Films Can Do: An Interview with Jeff Roy 14 Student Voices 13 Thoughts from the Field 11 Dear SEM 19 Dear SEM 14 Thoughts from the Field 20 Dear SEM 14 What’s in a Name? 16 Dear SEM 23 Thinking through Decolonizing Ethnomusicology “We’re Not Gonna Take It”: Trump and Striking West Virginia Teachers 22 . AND ETHNOMUSICOLOGY The Politics of Personalism 19 “Personal-is-Political”: Decolonial Praxis and the Future 17 Deconstruction as Political Discourse in Janelle Monáe’s “Q.U.E.E.N.” 25 Sounds and Subjects: Ethnomusicology and its Relation to Sound Studies 18 POLITICAL DISCOURSE Toward a Politics of Ethics in Medical Ethnomusicology 21 Decolonizable Spaces in Ethnomusicology 20 Stadium Shows and Spotify: Popular Music and the Complicity of Consumption 29 A Response to “Decolonizing Ethnomusicology” 25 Are We Human, or are We Scholars? 20 Decolonizing through Sound 21 STUDENTNEWS “Baile de Favela” and Its Sounding Transgressions 32 Ethnomusicology, Islam, and Political Dialogue 27 Speech-to-Text Software as Field Method 23 Music Studies and Sound: A Conversation with Matt Sakakeeny 22 Response to EnYart’s “Music and Conflict Resolution” 25 Glocal Politics in Bavarian Slang Rap: “Wolli” by Liquid & Maniac 37 The “Pre-Postmodern” Ethnomusicology of Zora Neale Hurston 31 Reflecting on the Pulse Nightclub Rejoinder 26 SENSORY PERCEPTION IN FIELD AND PRACTICE Mad Planet 23 { Music and Conflict Resolution in Israeli-Palestinian Relations 42 ENGAGING THROUGH SEM After Pulse: Political Movements and the Dance Floor 25 Peacebuilding, Not Politics: Music and MESPO’s Model for Change 46 Hotness Revisited 25 SEM Chapter Meetings; Or, Why that Six-Hour Drive Really is Worth It 34 What Can One Learn in Gamelan Ensemble in One Semester? 28 Confronting Colonial Legacies Ethnomusicology and Empathy 49 Contemplation, Encouragement, and Celebration: The Ten Tracks Project 36 Haitian-Immigrant Artists and the Political Aesthetic of Migration “You’ve Never Heard This?” 26 Listening to the 2017 Tim Hortons Brier 30 in Brazil’s Polarized 2018 Presidential Campaign 32 INTO THE FIELD Postcolonial Institutional Ethnography 27 Join your peers After the Mudslides: The Ethics of Singing, Witnessing, and Fieldwork 51 Join your peers Vessels of Song: Ethnodoxy and the Enduring Legacy of Missionary Work 37 Buddha’s Songs: A Close Reading of Singing in a Taiwanese Monastery 38 Join your peers “Shadow in the Field”?: Doing Medical Ethnomusicology in Croatia 40 Join your peers by following us on Beyond the IRB: Affirmative Consent in the Field 54 by liking us on In Search for Decolonialized Perspectives 30 by “liking” us on Conducting Cross-Cultural Interviews 42 by “liking” us on Facebook, Twitter, Analogies of Political Structure in Ethnomusicological Writing 56 Facebook and The Sense of a Feast: Capturing the Georgian Supra 41 The Cape Coon Carnival: Photographic Essay 31 Volume 14, Number 2 | Fall/Winter 2018 14, Number 2 | Fall/Winter Volume 2017 13, Number 2 | Fall/Winter Volume Facebook and Hustle and Swag: The Individual as Hip Hop Enterprise 44 Facebook and Politics & Music II: An Annotated Bibliography 41 and semsn.com following us on More than Sound: A Sensory Studies Bibliography for Novices 45 2016 12, Number 2 | Fall/Winter Volume Decolonizing the Discipline: A Conversation with Aaron Fox 38 Politics & Music: An Annotated Bibliography 60 following us on following us on to get the latest Twitter to get the Shadows of Ethnography 47 Twitter to get the Twitter to get the Reading, Decolonizing: Some Resources from Many Perspectives 42 Our Staff 43 updates and calls Our Staff 63 latest updates and Our Staff 48 Volume 14, Number 1 | Spring/Summer 2018 Volume latest updates and Our Staff 49 latest updates and Our Staff 44 for submission! calls for submission! 13, Number 1 | Spring/Summer 2017 Volume Cover image courtesy of Davin Vidigal Rosenberg Cover image courtesy of Liquid & Maniac/Demograffics © (see page 37) Cover image courtesy of Diego Pani and Jordan Zalis (see page 30) calls for submission! calls for submission! cover image created from this issue with wordclouds.com Cover Image: “Be a Good Girl” by Tania Willard (Secwepemc Nation)—see page 41 Letter from the Editor Letter from the SEM President From the Editor Letter from the SEM President This issue of SEM Student News marks my there is one particular challenge that I want to take The Coextensive Moment of Music and Politics continue to be surprised at how many case studies, Dear readers, welcome to SEM Student News Fall/ for themselves. To varying degrees and approaches, Letter from the Editor Hello from Malang, East Java, Company (VOC) and Dutch colonists, eager to enjoy Welcome to Volume 12, Number 2, of SEM Student Thus, I hope that you, our colleagues and readers, penultimate as editor, and I am extremely grateful this moment to attend to: the frequent appearance in Africa: A Pedagogical Perspective musical repertoires, and pedagogical experiences Winter 2017! This issue features a return to our each one of them inquires into the intersections Indonesia. Davin, thank you for the cool climate and productive agriculture of the News! This is my first issue as editor and thus an will open yourselves to the various critiques and to have worked with SEMSN over the past six (almost and continued use of terms like world music(s), non/ we have in common (note that both of us conducted themed format with a focus on sound and sensory between sound studies, ethnomusicology, and the SEM As I write this brief reflection, I asking me to write a greeting for area.