This issue of Intercultural Music is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Hortense Kerr who passed away in May 2002. Funeral rites were held on Friday, June 7, 2002 at Rankin Chapel on the campus of Howard University in Washington, DC. Her death occurred less than two months after she had participated in the Seventh Biennial International Symposium and Festival of the Centre for Intercultural Music Arts (CIMA), held at Churchill College, University of Cambridge, in April 2002. At the conference, Dr. Hortense Kerr, Professor Nelda Ormond and Professor Marva Cooper gave a joint presentation. At a previous CIMA conference which took place at the University of London Institute of Education in April 2000, Kerr presented a paper with Cooper on selected piano music composed by her late husband, Thomas H. Kerr.

The theme of the Seventh Biennial International Conference was "New Intercultural Music" highlighted by a teachers' day held on Tuesday 16^th April. It is hoped that the teachers' day will become a regular feature of future conferences. In order to focus more readily on the role of music education in intercultural musicology and CIMA's activities, Intercultural Musicology will be used as a forum to promote intercultural music education. To this end, articles that deal with intercultural aspects of music education, broadly defined, particularly those that demonstrate aspects of methodologies and alternative ways of enlivening and improving the process of music education are solicited. This includes articles from classroom teachers as well as teachers working in the wider community, which deal with the "how to" aspects, or the processes of music education, and offer suggestions based on musical practice.

Starting with this issue, Intercultural Musicology will be published as a peer reviewed online journal. A "Bulletin Board" is included as a mouthpiece for subscribers to the bulletin and members of CIMA and will display views, ideas, suggestions, remarks and other comments that readers, participants at CIMA's events and members wish to express. To start the process, an edited version of discussions which took place during and after the Seventh Biennial International Conference at Churchill College, Cambridge, are being posted.