October 24-28, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT.

Why should you be there? This will be the most "musical" SEM in recent memory.

How does 2 all-night Javanese gamelan sessions (1 wayang, 1 klengengan) sound to you?

Or a night of Middle Eastern music featuring Scott Marcus, Anne Rasmussen, Mustafa Avci, Sonia Seeman, yer tribe moderator, and many others performing Arab classical, Turkish folk, and Yemeni pop music?

Did I mention SEM-member concerts of African, Caribbean, South Asian, East Asian, and European folk musics?

And since you're going to be so tired of hearing music from around the world, you might want to check out some of the several hundred papers that will be read during the day... ;)

sem2008.blogs.wesleyan.edu/conf...dule/

See you there!