The UCLA Ethnomusicology Department was honored to host the annual conference of the Society for Ethnomusicology Southern California and Hawai'i Chapter (SEMSCHC) on March 1-2, 2025, at UCLA. This year's conference held special significance as it marked the 70th anniversary of Mantle Hood's arrival at UCLA, a momentous occasion honoring the visionary founder of the then Institute, now Department of Ethnomusicology.
This past weekend (Feb. 25, 2012) saw another enjoyable annual conference of the Southern California and Hawai’i Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEMSCHC). This region—whose acronym the UC Riverside students have taken to pronouncing as “some such”—has seen increasing attendance in the past few years.
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