Congratulations are in order for Elizabeth K. Keenan, who won the 2007 Lise Waxer Prize for the best student paper on popular music for her paper given at the 2006 SEM conference in Hawai'i, "Straightyfest, Ladyquest, Ladyfest: Femininity, Sexuality, and Third Wave Feminism at Young Women's Rock Music Festivals." The Lise Waxer Prize is sponsored by the Popular Music Section of SEM.
 read more »

The Society for Ethnomusicology's 52nd annual SEM Conference will take place October 24th - 28th at Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. This year's theme is Music, War and Reconcilliation.

A complete list of presenters and other participants from Columbia University follows.  read more »