It is a
pleasure to report that I have recently been elected Secretary and Incoming Chair
for the Historical
Ethnomusicology Section of the Society
for Ethnomusicology. In close collaboration with the current Chair Otto
Stuparitz (University of Amsterdam), there are several goals that I expect we
can achieve for further development of the Section.
SEM
explains its sections as follows: “Sections support large areas of professional
interest within the Society membership. Sections elect their own officers and
in some cases collect nominal dues on a voluntary basis.”
Around 15 years ago I briefly served as Chair of the Historical Ethnomusicology SIG and later helped to develop the application along with Jon McCollum for it to become a Section. Our work in this milieu led to development of the Deep Soundings book series and other projects.
Now I especially see potential in establishing collaborations
between the Section and its equivalents in various sister organizations with
shared interests in global music history (e.g. ICTMD Historical Sources
SIG, ISME History Standing Committee, IMS Global History of Music Study Group, Analytical
Approaches to World Music-AAWM, etc.).
It will be
exciting to see what the Historical Ethnomusicology Section can accomplish over
the next few years.
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