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IU to welcome music meeting

IU will be the host institution for the Society of Ethnomusicology’s 58th Annual Meeting Nov. 14-17 in Indianapolis.

About 1,000 people are expected to attend this year’s meeting, including scholars, public practitioners and students, according the a press release.

The meeting, which will last for four days,  is planned to include more than 400 paper presentations, roundtables, workshops, film screenings and other various events dedicated to ethnomusicology.

In addition, University of California, Los Angeles distinguished professor of anthropology Sherry Ortner will deliver this year’s keynote address at the Charles Seeger Lecture.

The conference’s local arrangements committee organized a variety of performances for this year’s meeting.

The committee is composed of staff members from IU as well as Indiana State University and Wabash College.

Musical acts, such as the IU Soul Revue, Sogbety Diomande’s West African Drum and Dance Ensemble and Bernard Woma, are all scheduled to perform during the meeting.

The Society of Ethnomusicology was founded in 1955, and since 1988, the group has been based at IU.

The society works closely with IU’s Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and Archives of Traditional Music.

Society of Enthnomusicology Executive Director Stephen Stuempfle said in a press release the society is grateful for the support that IU has given it over the years.

“The co-presence of the Society for Ethnomusicology and a major academic ethnomusicology program at Bloomington continues to define the campus as an international center for the study of the world’s music,” Stuempfle said in the press release.

— Carolyn Crowcroft

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