SEM's applied ethnomusicology section would once again like to sponsor panels, roundtables or forums that focus on applied ethnomusicology at this year's SEM conference to be held in Los Angeles, November 11-14, 2010. The SEM's deadline for online submission of proposals is March 15, 2010.

This year’s conference theme is ‘Sound Ecologies” and includes interest in the following topics:
1) Music Displacement and Disaster
2) Music, Copyrights, and Human Rights
3) Music and Social Activism
4) Film Music

Please see the SEM website further details on the conference : http://www.indiana.edu/~semhome/2010/call.shtml

If you would like to have your session sponsored by the applied ethnomusicology section, by March 10 please contact one of the co-chairs: Jeff Titon ( ), Katie Van Buren ( ) or Maureen Loughran ( ) with the proposal for your panel as well as the abstracts of the papers to be presented.  The co-chairs will look over the details and let you know if we can sponsor it.

Cordially,
Jeff Todd Titon
Katie Van Buren
Maureen Loughran
Co-chairs Applied Ethnomusicology Section
Society for Ethnomusicology