Society for Ethnomusicology, Southern California Chapter
Thirty-third Annual Meeting, 26-27 February 1999
University of California at Riverside
General Meeting
1. Call to order
2. Necrology?
3. Reading of minutes from 1998 meeting at UCLA (Secretary-Treasurer)
4. Reports of Chapter Officers:
- President (René T.A. Lysloff)
- Vice President (unable to attend, Report read by Rene)
- Secretary Treasure (Louise Spear)
- Student Concerns Representative (Wendy Debano)
5. Announcement of Ki Mantle Hood Prize Winner for 1998
- Heidi Feldman (UCLA): "Which Side are you On? Cultural Politics and the Art-Ethnography Continuum?" (announced in vice-president's report)
6. Program Committee: change in organization
- formerly: program committee chair (appointed by the chapter president), vice president, and the past committee chair (appointed by the chapter president or program committee chair)
- proposed: chair appointed by the president, vice president, one additional member (a graduate student appointed by the program committee chair)
7. Ki Mantle Hood Prize Committee
- formerly: vice-president (chair), current meeting program committee chair, and past program committee chair
- proposed: that it be made up by the program committee
- formerly: awards are first announced at following SEMSCC meetings
- proposed: awards be first announced within thirty days after meeting, announcement be made on the SEMSCC Webpage (after the recipient is notified), formal announcement also be made at the following meeting
8. Elections/Organization: chapter officers
- formerly: nomination by motion and election by show of hands
- proposed: nomination by motion and election by secret ballot
- formerly: chapter vice president automatically becomes president after two year term proposed: vice president and president are elected separately or president is elected and then appoints vice president or president and vice president elected separately on alternating (i.e., staggered) years (each with two-year terms)
- proposed: elections of new vice president and new president be held next year (2000)
- proposed: split Secretary Treasurer into two separate offices, secretary handles membership matters (correspondence, minutes of meetings, etc., according to chapter guidelines)treasurer handles all finances
9. Future meetings
- formerly: next year’s meeting arranged by president on an informal basis
- proposed: next year’s meeting be discussed at the general meeting for tentative site
10. Formal thanks for Program and Local Arrangement Committees, student assistants, institution
11. Call for additional business
- Other upcoming conferences, events
- Other business
12. Call for motion to adjourn