.--Empirical Musicology Review
.--new editor for SEM journal
.--SEM 2005 needs students volunteers
.--SEM President’s letter on Katrina
Empirical Musicology Review
Empirical Musicology Review is a new electronic journal founded in cooperation with the Knowledge Bank Project. The aim of Empirical Musicology Review is to provide an international forum to facilitate communication and debate between scholars engaged in systematic observation-based music scholarship. Empirical Musicology Review will begin publication in January 2006. EMR welcomes submissions, including original research articles, commentaries, book reviews, interviews, letters, and data sets. Suitable topics include music history, performance, education, listening, theory, and composition -- with an emphasis on systematic methods, such as hypothesis-testing, modeling, and controlled observation.
Submissions pertaining to social, political, cultural and economic phenomena are welcome. Theoretical and speculative articles are welcome provided they contribute to the forming of empirically testable hypotheses, models or theories, or they provide critiques of methodology.
The permanent web home for Empirical Musicology Review will be http://emusicology.org
Further information can be found at the EMR temporary web site:
http://csml.som.ohio-state.edu/EmpiricalMusicology/v0n1/index.html
If you have questions after visiting the temporary web site, please send
them to David Butler, editor of EMR, at dbutler@esedona.net
Ethnomusicology's new editor and submission of articles to the journal
We are pleased to announce that our journal "Ethnomusicology" will be edited by Timothy Cooley as of issue 51(1), which comes out in early 2007. Authors wishing to submit articles relating to SEM commemorative themes should submit them, as with previous articles, to Peter Manuel, for possible inclusion in one or more issues of volume 50 which will be devoted to such topics, and which will be jointly edited by him in collaboration with Andy Sutton and Ellen Koskoff. Please note that as of now, all 'normal' articles (i.e., on miscellaneous topics) should be sent to Timothy Cooley, at Department of Music, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6070 USA. (If they are sent to Peter Manuel, he will forward them to Tim Cooley.)
Student Volunteers Needed for SEM 50th Anniversary Meeting
Volunteers will monitor at least four (possibly five) sessions (including plenary sessions) and receive reimbursement of registration fee. Requests for particular sessions will be honored in the order received. Interested students should contact the Local Arrangements Committee Volunteer
Coordinator, Dr. Tracey Laird at tlaird@agnesscott.edu and indicate four preferred sessions and four alternate sessions.
SEM President's Letter Concerning Hurricane Katrina (x-posted from SEM-L, Sept 14, 2005)
Dear Colleagues,I am sure I speak for all the members of the Society for Ethnomusicology in expressing our sadness at the catastrophe along the Gulf Coast and our concern for the effect it has had on our members. These include not just the eight individual and sixteen institutional members who currently reside in the states of Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, but all those, scattered around the country, from those areas or who have family and friends living there. We know that many lives have been disrupted, jobs lost or postponed, and extraordinary costs incurred.
To help our members deal with the additional financial burdens of whatever kind that have resulted from this disaster, the Executive Board has authorized SEM to pay members' conference registrations for the annual meeting in Atlanta and their membership dues for 2006. We will be contacting each member in the affected areas with this information, and requests for such relief should be sent to the SEM Executive Director, Alan Burdette (semexec@indiana.edu). They will be decided on a case-by-case basis.
The SEM office is also in the process of contacting each institutional member in the area to see if their library collections survived or if they need help from us in restoring their SEM publications.
Another concern we all share is for the musicians of the area, one of the heartlands of American music. Some may be missing, some may be without musical instruments, and certainly nearly all are without jobs. If you would like to help or simply to know more, I suggest that you contact two organizations that are working on behalf of these musicians.
1. The Jazz Foundation of America was just named the Coordinator for the New Orleans Musicians Clinic as well as other groups in the Gulf Area who are helping the musicians in New Orleans.
www.jazzfoundation.org/new_orleans.php
2. The NOAHLeans mission is to find employment for musicians from the stricken area and to assist them and their families in relocation.
www.noahleans.com
If you learn of similar initiatives worthy of our members' support, please use SEM-L to circulate that information.
Best wishes to all in this time of trial.
Timothy Rice
President, Society for Ethnomusicology
