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Society for Ethnomusicology 2026

November 05, 2026 / Bloomington, IN

We're celebrating authors, editors, and friends of the press at SEM 2026!

Browse new books and journal issues in ethnomusicology below, or check out our complete list in the field.

Use conference coupon code SCF26 to save 40% on books and journal issues when you order on our website through December 31, 2026. Customers in the UK and Europe can order books with this code when ordering from Mare Nostrum Group.

If you are looking to connect with any of our editors about your book project, see our editors’ specialties and contact information. To submit a book proposal, consult our submissions guidelines and submission portal.

Knowing by Ear cover image

Listening to Voice Recordings with African Prisoners of War in German Camps (1915–1918)

Anette Hoffmann

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Winner of the 2026 Alan Merriam Prize, SEM

Cover of Bangkok after Dark features a blue-filtered photograph of Maurice Rocco in performance at the Oriental Hotel in Bangkok.

Bangkok after Dark

Maurice Rocco, Transnational Nightlife, and the Making of Cold War Intimacies

Benjamin Tausig

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Honorable Mention, 2026 Jazz Journalists Association Book Award

Cover of Raising the Bottom features a black & white photograph is at the top of the cover featuring three Black individuals in movement. One person is standing with arms out, another is in the air, and the third is on the ground with their botto

Raising the Bottom

Bounce Music and Black Queer Performance in Post-Katrina New Orleans

Alix Chapman

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We See with the Skin

On Zora Neale Hurston's Methodology

Kheshti, Roshanak

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Cover of Wild Tongue features a vibrant collage of various objects with a large pink mouth at the center against a black background with white and yellow distressed text.

A Borderlands Mixtape

Jonathan Leal

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Defending Rumba in Havana

The Sacred and the Black Corporeal Undercommons

Maya J. Berry

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Cover of Under Pressure is a square shape and features an abstract pattern of black and yellow stripes that spiral and distort from an off-page radius.

A Song by David Bowie and Queen

Max Brzezinski

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Acoustic Colonialism

Acts of Mapuche Interference

Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante

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Honorable Mention, 2026 Best Subsequent Book in Native American and Indigenous Studies Prize, NAISA

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Sounds of Black Switzerland

Blackness, Music, and Unthought Voices

Jessie Cox

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Listening for Black Queer Lusophone Diasporas

Daniel da Silva

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Geographies of the Ear

The Cultural Politics of Sound in Contemporary Barcelona

Tania Gentic

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Cover of The Sound of Feathers features an image of multicolored iridescent feathers fills the entire design. The title is in a white serif font at the top with the subtitle in yellow below it.

The Sound of Feathers

Attentive Living in a World Beyond Ourselves

Kathryn Gillespie

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The Noise Silence Makes

Secularity and Ghana's Drum Wars

Mariam Goshadze

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Winner of the 2026 Best First Book in Religious Studies Award, AAR

Cover of Taking Leave by Deborah Kapchan is gray. At the top of the cover the word Practices is centered in a handwritten script. The main title is in the middle in the same script and the author's signature is at the bottom.

Deborah Kapchan

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The Archive and the Aural City

Sound, Knowledge, and the Politics of Listening

Alejandro L. Madrid

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Alive in the Sound

Black Music as Counterhistory

Ronald Radano

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