From the Editor

Greetings! This issue begins with a superb and timely piece by Deonte L. Harris entitled “On Race, Value, and the Need to Reimagine Ethnomusicology for the Future.” Drawing from several years of fieldwork in London's carnival arts scene, Harris develops an approach that he calls “value from below,” which illustrates how racial oppression often directly affects how members of BIPOC communities assign value, meaning, and significance to particular things, spaces, places, and actions. He uses this approach to consider the impacts of systemic racism on BIPOC scholars in ethnomusicology, arguing that the growing call for the making of an anti-racist and decolonized ethnomusicology is indicative of the continued struggle over value in the field and the larger world. Michael A. Figueroa's contribution to this issue, “Post-Tarab: Music and Affective Politics in the US SWANA Diaspora,” answers former SEM President Anne K. Rasmussen's call for a “migration of ethnomusicology toward the...