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October 27, 2021 (October 28, 2021)

SEM 2021 Virtual Exhibit

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Welcome to the 2021 Society for Ethnomusicology virtual exhibit! Enjoy journals, books, author interviews, and more. Use promo code SEM21 for 50% off all ethnomusicology books on our website October 27-31, […]

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October 21, 2020 (October 22, 2020)

SEM Virtual Exhibit

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Welcome to the 2020 University of Illinois Press Society of Ethnomusicology Virtual Exhibit! While we wish this could be an in-person event, we’re still excited to show you our Ethnomusicology […]

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September 24, 2020 (August 26, 2020)

Q&A with Elizabeth A. Clendinning, Author of American Gamelan and the Ethnomusicological Imagination

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Elizabeth A. Clendinning, author of American Gamelan and the Ethnomusicological Imagination, answers questions about the intricacies of global ensembles, gaps between classroom discussions and real-life applications, and the cohesion of […]

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January 16, 2020 (January 16, 2020)

Remembering Dr. Bruno Nettl

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We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Dr. Bruno Nettl, beloved author, editor, colleague, and friend. Bruno cofounded the Society for Ethnomusicology, serving as its president (1969-1971) […]

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October 2, 2017 (October 6, 2017)

University of Illinois Press Launches Bruno Nettl Fund for Ethnomusicology

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The University of Illinois Press is pleased to announce the launch of the Bruno Nettl Fund for Ethnomusicology. The fund honors UIUC professor emeritus Bruno Nettl, internationally renowned musicologist, co-founder […]

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December 7, 2016 (December 5, 2016)

Sa-lute! Congratulations to music scholar Stephen Wade

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Laurie C. Matheson, Director of the Press, on the latest UIP award winner. Stephen Wade, author of The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience, has […]

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September 20, 2016 (July 27, 2016)

Release Party: A Latin American Music Reader

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In this new UIP collection, Javier F. León and Helena Simonett curate a group of essential writings from the last twenty-five years of Latin American music studies. Chosen as representative, outstanding, […]

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August 18, 2016 (August 17, 2016)

Throwbacklist Thursday: Over There

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Whenever the Olympic Games convene, we remember that the United States shares the planet with other countries. We also remember that many of the world’s people play team handball. At the University […]

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December 10, 2015 (December 10, 2015)

Sa-lute!

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At its recent conference in Austin, the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) recognized the excellence of James Revell Carr‘s Hawaiian Music in Motion: Mariners, Missionaries, and Minstrels. The book is a co-recipient of Alan Merriam […]

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December 2, 2015 (December 2, 2015)

Roll Over, Tchaikovsky! awarded by the Society for Ethnomusicology

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Roll Over, Tchaikovsky! Russian Popular Music and Post-Soviet Homosexuality by Stephen Amico has been awarded the Marcia Herndon Prize by the Gender and Sexualities Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology. […]

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September 18, 2015 (September 16, 2015)

The King of the Cannibal Islands

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Pirates. They have a bad reputation. The robbing. The kidnapping. The walking of planks. But how about the positive things pirates have done? The contributions to fashion. The government-sanctioned predatory […]

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November 17, 2014 (November 18, 2014)

Squeeze This! wins SEM award

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Squeeze This! A Cultural History of the Accordion in America by Marion Jacobson has won the 2014 Klaus Wachsmann Prize for Advanced and Critical Essays in Organology from the Society for […]

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