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Editorial| July 01 2023 From the Editor Ethnomusicology (2023) 67 (2): v–vii. https://doi.org/10.5406/21567417.67.2.01 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation From the Editor. Ethnomusicology 1 July 2023; 67 (2): v–vii. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/21567417.67.2.01 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressEthnomusicology Search Advanced Search Volume 67, Issue 2 of Ethnomusicology opens with Dr. Mellonee V. Burnim's 2021 Charles Seeger Lecture, “Ethnographic Encounters: For Whom Do We Speak?” In this essay, Burnim shares her autobiographical trajectory as a musician, scholar, and teacher of African American music. She seamlessly weaves her experiences into a historiographical overview of the study of African American religious musics to the present day. In this essay, she poses key ethical questions regarding our responsibilities as ethnomusicologists to respect and represent the communities and musical traditions that we research. In the Seeger Lecture, Burnim urges those who study Black religious musics to cultivate a “deeper understanding of the distinctions between race and culture and the implications of those distinctions in formulating our research objectives, assumptions, and methodologies as ethnomusicologists,” but this exhortation to seek a deeper, more nuanced understanding applies to ethnomusicologists working across a wide range of musical traditions and practices.... You do not currently have access to this content.