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Report from the Co-Chairs
Dear GST
members,
Post-New Year's greeting and early Spring tidings from the new GST
coteries Boden Sandstrom and Juniper Hill. We hope that you are having
a wonderful semester so far! We are excited to be the new GSt cochairs,
and would like to share with you several news items.
First, many thanks to the wonderful work of the previous coteries
Eileen Hayes and Amy Corin for getting if to this point in time.
As many of you are probably aware, the first theme for the 2006 SEM
conference in Hawaii is "Music, Sexuality, and the Body." We hope to
see lots of our scholarship presented, and would like to encourage all
of you to submit abstracts for individual papers and/or panels. So far,
Boden (boden@umd.edu) is proposing a
panel on cross-cultural gender and sexualities in popular music; Monica
Hairston (mlhairston@gmail.com)
is proposing a panel on the transformative experience of transgressing
"comfort zones" -- if you're interested in one of these panels, please
contact the organizer directly. If you have other ideas for panels,
please send an e-mail to the GST listserv (directions below) or to one
of the coteries (we are happy to help coordinate). Many thanks to
Roberta Lamb for sending out an invitation to the general SEM-L
listserv for GST-sponsored panels. Don't forget, the deadline for
abstracts is March 15 so it is important that you send your abstracts
to the panel organizers a week or so in advance of the deadline so that
they get a chance to review them.
The Marcia Herndon Award, a new GST prize created to honor
ethnomusicological work in gender and sexuality, is now officially
running. Many thanks to Gillian Rogers for taking over the
responsibilities and getting the prize set up. It would be great if
everyone could donate money this year to fill the coffers for our first
prize and ones to come -- any amount you can give would be appreciated.
In order to donate to the prize, simply write a note on your SEm
membership renewal form indicating how much money you would like
earmarked for the prize. If you have already renewed, you can send a
check to SEM with a note on the bottom that designates that the funds
are to be deposited to the GST/Prize fund sub account. See the GST web
site
for a description of the prize.
We encourage you all to subscribe to the list-serv. To do so, send an
e-mail message with no subject line and no signature to:
SEMGLBT-L@listserv.it.northwestern.edu. In the body of the e-mail,
type: Subscribe.
Our GST web site is currently located at: http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/music/SEM/SEM_Home.html (be aware that this URl may change in the
near future). The web site contains contact details, listserv
directions, price information, and resources such as bibliographies. If
you have any other useful information to post on the web site, please
contact one of us or Roberta Lamb (lambr@post.queensu.ca).
In other news, Boden was on the Diversity panel (organized by Deborah
Wong) at the recent IASPM-US Conference. It was the first such panel
for this organization and was very well received. In fact a resolution
against the Frist anti-gay marriage amendment came out of the
membership meeting. IASPM joined a growing list of organizations who
are signing on to petition to stop this amendment.
We look forward to hearing from you and hearing your scholarship at our
panels in Hawaii. SSW is still considering the possibility of bringing
Carolina Robertson as a guest speaker during a special joint session.
We will keep you posted about this.
Sincerely,
Boden and Juniper |
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