The Economic Ethnomusicology Special Interest Group (SIG) of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) aims to:
Encourage and facilitate networking, research and events for scholars working on music from economic perspectives from contemporary and historical perspectives. These include, but are not limited to:
-Capitalism, post-socialism; questions of cultural and economic value; musical labor; commodification;
circulation/exchange
-Recording, performance, and media industries; intellectual property
-Cultural policy; cultural and musical sustainability.
Foster interdisciplinary links of ethnomusicologists and other music scholars with disciplines such as Economic Anthropology, Economic History, Economics, Geography, Sociology and Marketing
Establish Economic Ethnomusicology as an interdisciplinary subdiscipline of Ethnomusicology
Advocate for better working conditions within the academy, recognizing that the economic organization of higher education bears upon the development of economic ethnomusicology and scholarship writ large, especially with regard to the inclusion of scholars from underrepresented race, gender, and class backgrounds.