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Mission Statement

SEMSEC is a member chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology. The Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) was founded in 1955 to promote the research, study, and performance of music in all historical periods and cultural contexts. SEM is multidisciplinary in concept and worldwide in scope. Members of the Society for Ethnomusicology are scholars, students, performers, publishers, museum specialists, and librarians from numerous disciplines.

SEMSEC was founded in 1981. Currently it includes the states of Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, South Carolina, and North Carolina, plus all the countries in the Caribbean basin.

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Current News

updated 24 March 2011

2011 Annual Conference

The Society for Ethnomusicology Southeast and Caribbean Chapter (SEMSEC) is pleased to announce its 2010 Annual Meeting, Friday and Saturday, March 25-26, 2011 at the Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida.

The conference program is now posted! Click below for more information.

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Conference Program and Abstracts

The final conference program and abstracts for the 2010 Annual Conference, as well as other past conferences, are now available to download from the conference page.

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