Back Issues

All issues of SEM Student News are available to download for free in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format. You will need the free Adobe Reader to open these files. Current and back issues are available below.
Vol. 15, No. 1 (2019): Music and Movement (10.1 MB)

Vol. 14, No. 2 (2018): Politics in & of Ethnomusicology (4.47 MB)
Vol. 14, No. 1 (2018): Music and Politics (7.12 MB)

Vol. 13, No. 2 (2017): Sound and Sensory Studies (12.9 MB)
Vol. 13, No. 1 (2017): Ethnomusicology Now (4.4 MB)

Vol. 12, No. 2 (2016): Decolonizing Ethnomusicology (10.1 MB)
Vol. 12 (2016): Finding Paths on the Job Market (11.0 MB)

Vol. 11 (2015): Music Education and Ethnomusicology (2.56 MB)
Vol. 10 (2015): Music and Diaspora (12.6 MB)

Vol. 9 (2014): Medical and Cognitive Ethnomusicology (8 MB)
Vol. 8 (2014): Funding (13 MB)

Vol. 7 (2013): Ethnomusicology and Inter/Disciplinarity (648 KB)
Vol. 6 (2013): Digital Ethnomusicology (1.47 MB)

Vol. 5 (2012): Health (1.0 MB)
Vol. 4 (2012): Applied Ethnomusicology (890 Kb)

Vol. 3 (2011): Labor (3.6 MB)
Vol. 2 (2011): Publication/Intellectual Property (1.28 MB)

Vol. 1 (2010): Historical Ethnomusicology (3.57 MB)



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