RILM will participate in the 70th annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology in Atlanta, Georgia, 23–26 October 2025.
On Thursday, 23 October, at 8:00am local time, Editor Beatriz Goubert will present her paper “Scenes behind the zines: Global music connections in the pre-Internet era”, which features an analysis of some of the 1980s popular music fanzines in the RILM Archive of Popular Music Magazines (RAPMM) digital archive.
On Thursday, 23 October, at 4:00pm local time, Editor Stella Li will present her research in a paper titled “Jazz queens in women’s magazines: Negotiating femininity in occupied Japan” as part of The “New Woman” and Popular Song in World War II China and Japan panel.
On Friday, 24 October, at 4:00pm EDT, Editor Russell Skelchy will conduct a workshop titled Research Tools for Ethnomusicology: Navigating Bibliography, Historiography, and Ethnography. The workshop will be dedicated to developing research techniques with a focus on bibliography, historiography, online databases, and other research tools relevant to ethnographers and practitioners in the field of ethnomusicology, especially graduate students and junior scholars.
RILM staff will also be present at the RILM booth in the exhibition hall throughout the conference. Stop by to learn more about all of RILM’s resources. We look forward to seeing you in Atlanta!
View the full conference schedule here.