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 musicology 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 music 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 ethnomusicology 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 arrangement could vastly expand lum. In addition to the core ethnomu- tions. Regardless of the world area our readership, increase the citation sicology theory, methods, and world specialization of her students, Lois rates for our scholars, and be avail- area courses, Lois established two able throughout the developing world performance courses as part of the Continued on page 6 Continued on page 16 Ethnomusicology Sites Internet Resources The Society for Ethnomusicol- American Folklife Center ogy and the SEM Newsletter The SEM Website http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/ http://www.ethnomusicology.org Editor, SEM Newsletter British Forum for Ethnomusicology Henry Spiller The SEM Discussion List: SEM-L Department of Music http://www.bfe.org.uk University of California To subscribe, send email message British Library Sound Archive One Shields Avenue to: [email protected]. Davis, CA 95616, USA World and Traditional Music Section: (Tel) 530.757.5791 (Fax) 530.752.0983 EDU. Leave subject line blank. 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