News from SEM - Society for Ethnomusicology

News from SEM

News from SEM is the Society for Ethnomusicology’s online news magazine, with sections for Society programs and activities; general work in ethnomusicology and related fields; and announcements pertaining to conferences, publications, fellowships, and educational opportunities. For job announcements, see our Career Center.

News from SEM is updated on an ongoing basis. Subscriptions through an RSS feed are available in the top right of this page.

Please send announcements to Stephanie Sturgis, SEM Program Specialist / Assistant Website Editor, at sem@indiana.edu.

To propose an article, please contact Stephen Stuempfle, SEM Executive Director / Website Editor, at semexec@indiana.edu.

SEM News
Thursday, May 16, 2019 (0 Comments - view/add) May 2019 SEM Student of the Month - Robbie Campbell » Robbie Campbell SOAS, University of London Concentration of Study: Chopi Timbila Xylophone Music in Mozambiqu...
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 (0 Comments - view/add) Ethnomusicology Student of the Month - Blair Black » Blair Black University of California, Los Angeles Concentration of Study: Identity and representational polit...
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 (0 Comments - view/add) SEM Encomium for Prof JH Nketia » SEM President Gregory Barz has sent an encomium to be delivered at the State Funeral of Emeritus Professor Joseph Han...
Thursday, March 28, 2019 (0 Comments - view/add) SEM Receives Grant from NEA in Support of Careers in Public and Applied Ethnomusicology » The Society for Ethnomusicology is pleased to announce that it has received a $15,000 grant from the Nat...
Saturday, March 9, 2019 (0 Comments - view/add) March 2019 - Ethnomusicology Student of the Month - Otto Stuparitz » Otto Stuparitz University of California, Los Angeles Concentration of Study: Networks of Produ...
View more in "SEM News" »
General News
Monday, May 6, 2019 (0 Comments - view/add) Haiwai‘i Arts Alliance Honors Barbara Smith » The Haiwai‘i Arts Alliance feted Barbara Barnard Smith, a former professor of ethnomusicology at the University...
Friday, April 5, 2019 (0 Comments - view/add) Freemuse Releases State of Artistic Freedom 2019 Report » The Copenhagen-based organization Freemuse has released a new annual report: The State of Artistic Freedom 201...
Wednesday, March 20, 2019 (0 Comments - view/add) Session Notes from Songs of Our Native Daughters » Session Notes from Songs of Our Native Daughters On recording the new Smithsonian Folkways album with producers Rhiann...
Wednesday, March 20, 2019 (0 Comments - view/add) The Rise of Female Batá Drummers » The Rise of Female Batá Drummers: Gender, Sexuality, and Taboo in a Cuban Ritual Tradition By Vicky Jassey...
Thursday, March 14, 2019 (0 Comments - view/add) Prof JH Nketia Dies at 97 » G hana’s astute scholar and ethnomusicologist, Emeritus Professor Joseph Hansen Kwabena Nketia, has died. Continue r...
View more in "General News" »
Conferences
Tuesday, April 30, 2019 (0 Comments - view/add) CFP: 2019 Annual Meeting of the New Zealand Musicological Society: Musical Intersections » 2019 Annual Meeting of the New Zealand Musicological Society: Musical Intersections Deadline for proposals: 1 August 20...
Wednesday, March 20, 2019 (0 Comments - view/add) CFP: The Art of Cecil Taylor » Deadline: Friday, May 3, 2019 Conference dates: October 24 - 26, 2019 Conference website: https...
Wednesday, March 20, 2019 (0 Comments - view/add) MACSEM Conference Announcements and Program » 38 th Annual Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology April 6-7, 2019...
Wednesday, March 20, 2019 (0 Comments - view/add) CFP: A' Chànain Cheòlmhòr [The Musical Language]: Language Revitalization through Music » Call for Proposals A’ Chànain Cheòlmhor [The Musical Language]: Language Revitalization through Music...
Monday, February 25, 2019 (0 Comments - view/add) CFP: Early American Music and the Construction of Race: an Interdisciplinary Workshop » Early American Music and the Construction of Race: an Interdisciplinary Workshop Co-organized by Glenda Goodman (Univ...
View more in "Conferences" »
Publications
Friday, March 29, 2019 (0 Comments - view/add) Call for Papers Journal Special Issue: Music for Activism, Subversion, and Resistance Perfect Beat » Call for Papers Journal Special Issue: Music for Activism, Subversion, and Resistance Perfect Beat: Th...
Wednesday, March 20, 2019 (0 Comments - view/add) Call for Papers Jazz and Culture Journal » The University of Pittsburgh’s Jazz Studies program in collaboration with the University of Illinois Press invites scholar...
Wednesday, February 6, 2019 (0 Comments - view/add) Call for Papers: Dance around the World Textbook » Dance around the World Textbook: Call for papers Human Kinetics Publishing has commissioned Lynn E. Frederiksen and Sh...
Wednesday, December 19, 2018 (0 Comments - view/add) Call for Papers for NEMO-Online issue No. 8 (November 2019) » Research centres and groups CERMAA, ICONEA and IReMus are delighted to inform you that the main theme for number eight of...
Wednesday, November 28, 2018 (0 Comments - view/add) CFP: African music and/as SciFi » CFP: African Science Fiction Technology is transforming environments and people all over the world. How do African writ...
View more in "Publications" »
Fellowships
Friday, January 11, 2019 (0 Comments - view/add) Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows Program – 2019 Fellowship Competition » The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to announce the ninth annual competition of the Mellon/ACLS P...
Thursday, January 18, 2018 (0 Comments - view/add) Call for Applicants: 2018 AFC Awards & Fellowships » AFC is calling for applicants for its 2018 fellowships and awards. Pending approval of the 2018 Federal Budget, ...
Wednesday, November 15, 2017 (0 Comments - view/add) Ithaca College - Diversity Scholars Fellowship » The School of Music at Ithaca College announces its Diversity Scholars Fellowship Program search for 2018-19. Hosting two...
Tuesday, September 5, 2017 (0 Comments - view/add) Columbia University: Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship » The Department of Music at Columbia University invites applications for Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowships. Appointm...
Friday, August 4, 2017 (0 Comments - view/add) ACLS Fellowship and Grant Programs » ACLS is pleased to announce that the 2017-18 ACLS competitions are now open for many programs. ACLS offers fel...
View more in "Fellowships" »
Educational Opportunities
Wednesday, January 9, 2019 (0 Comments - view/add) Call for applications: Harvard Music Lab Summer Internship 2019 » CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Harvard Music Lab Summer Internship 2019 At the Music Lab, we study the basic scie...
Thursday, January 18, 2018 (0 Comments - view/add) Caribbean Music Pedagogy Workshop—Summer 2018 » My People Tell Stories, LLC is offering an intensive week-long professional development workshop designe...
Thursday, October 12, 2017 (0 Comments - view/add) Call for Papers: 2018 BAAL Routledge Workshop » Date: 18 th - 19 th January 2018 Venue: Glasgow University ...
Wednesday, August 23, 2017 (0 Comments - view/add) North Atlantic Fiddle Convention Workshop October 4-6, 2017 in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia » Day one will consist of music writing workshops and workshops on writing about music. In addition to a song-writing and a...
Thursday, June 29, 2017 (0 Comments - view/add) Berlin Summer University of the Arts » Berlin Summer University of the Arts will offer a Workshop about "Berlin Techno – Between Myth and Reality" For more i...
View more in "Educational Opportunities" »

support the Sound Future campaign