Bulletin of the ICTM Vol

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From the Secretariat Announcements — Related Calendar of Events Message from the Secretary General. Organizations Page 40 Message from the incoming Secretary 10th Conference for Researches of Folk General. ICTM Seeks Website Reviews Music in Red Rus’ and Adjacent Lands. Featured Publications by ICTM Editor for the Yearbook for Traditional Music Museum of Nepal. Symposium on Members Music. Education and Social Inclusion A Nest of Gold / Μια Φωλιά αό Pages 2-5 Page 16 Χρυσάφι; Dance, Field Research, and Intercultural Perspectives The Easter In Memoriam Reports Customs in the village of Sviniţa; Flowing Tides: History and Memory in an Irish Grażyna Władzsława Dąbrowska (192?– Reports from ICTM National and Regional Soundscape; Hindustani Traces in Malay 2016). Ivan Mačák (1935–2016). Olena Representatives: Cyprus; Madagascar. Ghazal: “A song so old and yet still Murzyna (1936–2016). Jan Stęszewski Malta; Montenegro; Nepal; Sri Lanka; famous”; Music in art / 艺术中的⾳乐 ; (1929–2016). Sudan. Muzikološki zbornik/Musicological Annual Pages 6-9 Pages 17-27 52/2: Music, Sound and Ecology; Sound, 44th ICTM World Conference (2017) Reports from ICTM Study Groups: African Ritual and Medicine: Culture and Activities Musics; African Musics (UK Branch); Ap‐ of Javanese Folk Healing; Traditional Fifth Notice and Registration Information. plied Ethnomusicology; Ethnochoreology; Dances of the Serbs in Banat: an Pages 10-14 Iconography of the Performing Arts; Music Anthology. and Dance in Southeastern Europe; Musical Pages 41-42 Announcements — ICTM Instruments; Musics of the Slavic World. General Information Symposium of Study Group on African Pages 28-36 Musics. Symposium of Study Group on Other reports: 24th ICTM Colloquium ICTM World Network; Study Groups; Ethnochoreology. Symposium of Study Executive Board, Secretariat, Membership “Plucked Lutes of the Silk Road”; RILM. Group on Musical Instruments. Society for Information; Publications by ICTM. Ethnomusicology 2017 Annual Meeting. Pages 37-39 Pages 43-50 Page 15

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Message from the including the UNESCO Participation The ICTM World Network grew from Programme Grant, the Barbara 112 countries and regions in January Secretary General Barnard Smith Travel Award, and the 2016 to 127 in January 2017, another by Svanibor Pettan ICTM Maud Karpeles and Young record. Most of the new representatives Scholars Funds. Please refer to the have been already listed in previous These lines are being Financial Assistance section of the Bulletins, while the newest additions, created just days prior ICTM website for more details. since October 2016, include Bhutan, to the meeting of the represented by Sonam Dorji, and It is a pleasure to be in a position to Secretariat with the Moldova, represented by Diana Bunea. state, without hesitation, that the Programme Committee and Local We welcome them to the World Council will meet the July festivities in Arrangements Committee Co-Chairs in Network, along with Austin Maro very good shape. Beyond recording Limerick, Ireland, where our joint Emielu, new national representative for all-time high membership numbers, this efforts should result in the preliminary Nigeria, succeeding Richard C. Okafor. programme of the 44th ICTM World is evident in a few recent developments Conference. This conference, to be held aimed to improve the quality of activi‐ The Council is proud of its 21 Study from 13 to 19 July, will be the main ties and communication among mem‐ Groups, also a new record number in ICTM event in 2017. The year that has bers, and in the carefully traced path 2016. As many as 16 of them held their just begun will mark the Council’s first for the future. This introductory symposia in the past year, while several seven decades, and consequently, the address encompasses developments others announcing their respective conference programme will be addition‐ since the publication of the latest symposia for 2017 and 2018 in this ally enriched by several celebratory Bulletin in October 2016, but also Bulletin. In regards to Colloquia, you items. Please note that from now on extends to the entire past year, without can find a report about the most recent until 11 April you can benefit from repeating data presented earlier. one, which took place in Shanghai, China in October 2016, on page 37. registering to the conference with Selected quantitative records reduced early bird fees. There will be The new category of ICTM scholarly several sources of financial support At the close of 2016, the Council gatherings, the Fora (characterized by counted a total of 1369 members and available for delegates with accepted the joint participation of the Council proposals to attend the conference, subscribers, a new record for a non‐ and one or more sister societies) will conference year. continue in 2017 in Abu Dhabi, following the inspiring SEM-ICTM Forum in Limerick in 2015.

Selected qualitative records One of the most extensive qualitative changes initiated in 2016 is the exten‐ sive revision of the Council’s constitu‐ tive document, the Rules. This process has been presented in the previous Bulletin, and the discussion is still ongoing within the Executive Board. The new proposed Statutes will be sent via email to all ICTM members in good standing for their consideration, in late April 2017. During the meeting of the General Assembly (15 July 2017) the proposed Statutes will be discussed, and the General Assembly will be in a position to approve them.

Crossing the bridge over the river Shannon during a break of the Executive Board meeting in June 2016. Photo by Svanibor Pettan.

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The ICTM website was subject to a

Membresía number of importantPublicaciones changes,Membre ﬁnalized Publications

Yearbook for Traditional Music Revue annuelle pour les musiques traditionnelles Tipo Tarifa anual on 12 January 2017.Type de membre While keeping itsCoût annuel Ordinaria EUR 60 El YearbookOrdinaire for Traditional Music es una revista EUR 60 La Revue annuelle pour les musiques traditionnelles est recognizability,académica deit revisiónoffers por innovations pares, que publica ensayos,in une publication scientifque de référence en langue Ordinaria conjunta EUR 90 reseñas y reportajesOrdinaire ajouté en el (conjoint) área de investigación sobre EUR 90 anglaise qui présente des articles, critiques et Estudiante EUR 40 technical músicamatters y baileEtudiant tradicionales.(security, El Yearbook speed, se publicaeasi ‐ en EUR 40 comptes-rendus dans le domaine de la recherche sur les inglés cada noviembre, en versión impresa y electrónica. danses et musiques traditionnelles. Elle sort une fois l’an Emérita EUR 40 Emérite/Retraité EUR 40 er membership renewals, better legibili‐ en novembre. Números anteriores impresos (desde 1969 hasta el año Corporativa desde EUR 240 Enterprise à partir de EUR 240 ty) and newanterior categories al corriente) pueden of adquirirse information. por EUR 23 más Les numéros parus depuis 1969 sont en vente au prix de Vitalicia EUR 1.200 gastos de envío.A vie EUR 1200 23 € plus frais de port. Among them are the pages History of Vitalicia conjunta EUR 1.500 La colecciónConjoint completa à vie del Yearbook puede accederseEUR 1500 Une consultation électronique de la revue peut se faire electrónicamente mediante la plataforma JSTOR. par JSTOR. Los miembros al día reciben copias gratuitas delthe governanceLes of membres IFMC à jourand de leurICTM cotisation reçoivent un Yearbook y Bulletin, acceden al contenido reservado del Bulletin ofexemplaire the ICTM de la Revue annuelle et du Bulletin, ont Bulletin de l’ICTM sitio web, y tienen derecho a participar en todas and las General Editorsaccès aux contenusof the du Yearbook site, et ont droit de vote et El Bulletin of the ICTM es un boletín con noticias sobre Le BulletinConsejo de l’ICTM fournit des informations sur le CONSEIL actividades del ICTM. Aquellos miembros que tengan la participent aux activités de l’ICTM. Les membres el mundo de la música y el baile tradicionales, un monde des musiques et danses traditionnelles, un capacidad de patrocinar individuos o instituciones for de Traditionaldésireux Music de and payer laits cotisation predeces de personnes‐ ou calendario de eventos próximos, e informes de Grupos de calendrierInternacional des événements à venir, et des INTERNATIONAL países de moneda débil son bienvenidos de hacerlo organisations de pays à monnaie faible sont les Estudio (Study Groups) y representantes nacionales y comptes-rendus des Groupes d’Etude et des mediante de un pago anual adicional de EUR 30 porsors , listing membersbienvenues enwho ajoutant have 30€ àserved leur propre cotisation pour les Regionales. El Bulletin es gratuito y se distribuye cada représentants para régionaux la et nationaux. Les trois cada persona o institución patrocinada. pour chaque personne ou institution soutenue. in the Executiveenero, abril y octubreBoard en el andsitio web the del ICTM. livraisons annuelles de Janvier, Avril et Octobre sont MUSIQUES libres d’accès sur le site internet de l’ICTM. Subscripciones institucionales Abonnements institutionnels Música SecretariatNúmeros since anteriores 1947, deland Bulletin all Generalse encuentran RADITIONNELLES Les organismes, y compris les services d’abonnements, Depuis avril 2011 chaque numéro peut être acquis en T El Consejo ofrece subscripciones anuales, en formato disponibles en papel (hasta el número 119, de abril de qui souhaitent acquérir la Revue Annuelle pour les versionTradicional papier au prix de 7,70€ plus fais de port. impreso y electrónico, al Yearbook for TraditionalEditors of2011) the por Council’s EUR 7,70 másjournal costos since de envío, y Musiques Traditionnelles sous forme papier et/ou Music. Estas últimas incluyen acceso en línea a los gratuitamente en el sitio web del ICTM. La totalité des Bulletins est libre d’accès en version électronique sont conviés à souscrire une adhésion cinco volúmenes más recientes del Yearbook for1948, respectively. Gratitude for these électronique disponible sur le site internet de l’ICTM. institutionnelle à l’ICTM. Traditional Music, a través de la plataforma JSTOR. improvementsContacto Lesgoes abonnements to Vice papier President + électronique ou électronique Contact ICTM Secretariatseul permettent l’accès aux cinq dernières livraisons de ICTM Secretariat Department of Musicology, Faculty of Arts Department of Musicology, Faculty of Arts Tipo de subscripción Tarifa anual Don Niles and lato Revue Executive annuelle. Cet Assistant accès sera automatiquement University of Ljubljana compris dans la collection JSTOR si l’institution en unaUniversity organización of Ljubljana académica en Société savante reconnue par Sólo electrónica USD 100 Carlos Yoder.Aškerčeva possède 2 déjà l’autorisation. Aškerčeva 2 1000 Ljubljana relaciones formales de consulta l’UNESCO Sólo impresa EUR 90 1000 Ljubljana Type d’adhésion Coût annuel Slovenia Sloveniacon la UNESCO Impresa + electrónica USD 150 To reach +1colleagues 410 501 Electronique5559 on seulea worldwide USD 100 +1 410 501 5559 [email protected] [email protected] scale and www.ictmusic.orgincreaseVersion international papier cooper‐ EUR 90 www.ictmusic.org www.facebook.com/ictmusic www.facebook.com/ictmusic ation among scholarsPapier+ Electronique involved in music USD 150 and dance research, the Secretariat has prepared online ICTM brochures in much broader frame, including our own China. The current General Editor, languages other than English. In the current positions. Four obituaries in Kati Szego, will be in charge of volume previous issue of the Bulletin we show‐ cased the ICTM brochure in simplified this Bulletin convincingly prove this 49 (2017), while volume 50 (2018), claim. thematically based on the Limerick and traditional Chinese, and with this issue we are glad to announce the World Conference, will be the first one A look into the future edited by Lee. The presentation of the availability of the ICTM brochure in Immediately after this article you will upcoming General Editor will be Spanish and French languages on the find an introduction by my successor as ICTM website. Thanks to Jacob featured in the next Bulletin. Secretary General, Ursula Hemetek Rekedal, Yves Defrance, and Trần Several colleagues expressed scepticism from the University of Music and Quang Hải for their kind involvement. at the start of 2017, for political, Performing Arts Vienna, Austria. She economic, ecological, and other reasons. Obituaries will take over my duties at the Closing As an international scholarly organism, Ceremony of the 44th World Confer‐ The past year, marked by the passing ICTM is a part of the challenges the ence, on 19 July 2017. The Secretariat’s of so many well-known musicians, world is facing, and also an active move is expected to be smooth and made me think of the obituaries that agent in search for alternatives and easy, thanks to the long history of our are prominently featured in the solutions. Let us make sure that the close cooperation, the physical distance Bulletin. With them we primarily pay final part of the Council's definition between Ljubljana and Vienna (less respect to music and dance scholars —“acts as a bond among peoples of than 400 kilometres), and the continua‐ who are no longer with us, but different cultures and thus contributes tion of Carlos Yoder as Executive although sometimes overlooked, the to the peace of humankind”—continues Assistant. obituaries are a great source of know‐ to inspire our actions. ledge about the history of our It is also my pleasure to announce the Happy New Year 2017, and happy discipline. In a special way, they are a new editor of the Yearbook for Tradi‐ anniversary to ICTM! kind of “ethnomusicology of the tional Music: Tong Soon Lee from the individual” that helps us understand a Chinese University of Hong Kong,

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Message from the very influential in the Austrian folk of my own fieldwork recordings on music scene. music and minorities. It was secretly incoming Secretary prepared by the staff as a surprise in With the support of Gerlinde Haid, honour of my sixtieth birthday (the General who chaired the Department from 1994 cover is shown below). by Ursula Hemetek to 2010, I was able to establish a focus on music and minorities there. I studied musicology at Vienna University, Today the staff of the Department con‐ where I earned my PhD sists of scholars that work in different and my habilitation. fields: Ardian Ahmedaja is Chair of the From 1987 I have been working at the ICTM Study Group on Multipart Department of Folk Music Research Music, Hande Sağlam is an expert in and Ethnomusicology of the University Turkish Music, Wei-Ya Lin specializes of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, in Indigenous Music, Marko Kölbl in which I have chaired since 2011. Gender Studies, and Ulrich Morgen‐ stern in musical instruments. Austrian This institution was founded in 1965 Folk Music is taught by Daniela by Walter Deutsch, a well-known Mayrlechner. The department celebrat‐ scholar in European folk music ed its fiftieth anniversary in 2015, when On the international level, the Depart‐ research. During his time the main the photo shown at the bottom of this ment of Folk music Research and Eth‐ focus of research and teaching was on page was taken. nomusicology has been rather succes‐ Austrian folk music. Rudolf Pietsch, sful in networking. This we owe mainly who worked in the Department for There are three publication series to ICTM. more than 35 years and retired in 2016, edited by the department (Schriften laid the groundwork for teaching folk zur Volksmusik, klanglese, Tondoku‐ I have been a member of ICTM since music on both the theoretical and mente zur Volksmusik in Österreich). 1989 when the World Conference was practical levels, which turned out to be The latest issue of a CD series was held in Schladming, Austria. As a presented in October 2016, consisting young scholar, this event opened my eyes to the tremendous opportunities that lie in the international network of an organization like ICTM. I began to make use of it in connection with my minorities’ studies. In 1997 I was able to establish the Study Group Music and Minorities, together with Svanibor Pettan and Anca Giurchescu. I am extremely grateful to the Council for enabling me to enter the international network of ethnomusicology and to learn a lot. I am still learning, and every new challenge within ICTM has widened my horizon over the years: the organization of the first international symposium on Music and Minorities in Vienna in 1994, the chairing of the Study Group on Music and Minorities since 1999, the position on the Execu‐ tive Board (2005-2013), and the organi‐ Staff of the Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Photo by provided by Ursula zation of the World Conference in Hemetek. Vienna (2007). My dedication to the

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Council is long-standing and enthusias‐ tic.

Music and minorities turned out to be the major topic of my life, but only within ICTM, and together with col‐ leagues from the whole world, I was able to establish it as an international research focus. Research on Roma mu‐ sic was the starting point, and this to‐ pic brought me into close contact with Svanibor Pettan. We established the Study Group on Music and Minorities together, one of the many activities that we shared. When Svanibor became Secretary General I was more than happy, and obviously he and Carlos have done wonderful job. It is now my The incoming Secretary General of ICTM. Photo provided by Ursula Hemetek. great honour and pleasure to follow Svanibor in this position. out the world. To my mind, the specified deadline; the Website Reviews social—and as a logical continuum Editor will then assist in liaising with socio‐political—relevance of ethnomusi‐ reviewers to resolve any queries regard‐ cology is more important than ever in ing submissions and their preparation “a world in trouble”. Therefore, a sym‐ for publication. posium to welcome ICTM into the Applicants for the Website Reviews Department and the University will be Editor position should be ICTM mem‐ dedicated to the topic of Ethnomusico‐ bers in good standing. Experience in logy and Its Socio-political Relevance editing is an asset. Anyone wishing to in Contemporary Societies. It will also undertake this important service to the take into account the 70th anniversary ICTM membership should send a state‐ of the Council, which will correspond Ursula Hemetek and Svanibor Pettan. ment of interest and CV to the General Photo provided by Ursula Hemetek. with the 200th anniversary of my uni‐ Editor, Kati Szego by 15 March 2017. versity. The date of the symposium is We share wonderful memories and ma‐ set to 28-30 September 2017, and you ny common efforts, often political ones, are all very welcome to attend. as the research on Roma demanded for action instead of staying in the “ivory ICTM Seeks Website tower”. The logical development of Svanibor’s ideas on ethnomusicology Reviews Editor for the was to focus on the “application” of Yearbook for Traditional results. I see ethnomusicology as the Music most relevant discipline among the “musicologies” as we deal with music in The Yearbook for Traditional Music its social relevance. requires a Website Reviews Editor to replace Barbara Alge, who will be step‐ Guido Adler, a Viennese musicologist, ping down from her position. The Web‐ first mentioned “comparative musicolo‐ site Reviews Editor is responsible for gy” in an article in 1885. The discipline soliciting and editing up to six reviews has developed tremendously since then of websites for each Yearbook. Reviews into many different directions through‐ are sent to the General Editor by a

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Dance Terminology, led by Vera As to the Study Group, she continued Proca-Ciortea from Romania, in a contact with many of us after 2002, meeting held in Wippersdorf, East such as through her booklet of poems, Germany. Four years later, the next and many times sent traditional meeting of this group was organized by holiday greetings with her beautiful Dąbrowska in Zaborów, Poland, and by wycinanki paper cut-outs. To our dear 1983, she co-edited with Kurt olleague: niech odpoczywa w pokoju! Petermann the ﬁrst extensive publication of the work group, entitled Analyse und Klassiﬁkation von Volkstanzen, published in Kraków.

At the seminal meeting of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology in 1988 in Copenhagen (where presenters came for the first time from outside of Grażyna Władzsława Dąbrowska. Europe) and at the following one in Photo provided by Elsie Ivancich Budapest in 1990, Dąbrowska present‐ Dunin ed her research in German, but she studied English to be able to present at Grażyna Władzsława the 1992 symposium in Nafplion, Ivan Mačák. Photo provided by Dąbrowska (192?–2016) Greece. In 1994 she organized a Bernard Garaj wonderful symposium in her own by Elsie Ivancich Dunin country, in Skierniewice. Ivan Mačák (1935–2016) Grażyna Władzsława Dąbrowska was As the founder of the Polish Society for an honoured dance researcher in her by Bernard Garaj Ethnochoreology in 1989, she arranged native Poland. The senior members of to publish the papers of the 1994 Ivan Mačák, one of the most prominent the ICTM Study Group on Ethnocho‐ symposium completely in English. and well-known Slovak ethnomusicolo‐ reology know Dr. Dąbrowska well for Despite her financial hardships she gist and ethno-organologist, passed her roles in Study Group meetings, and participated with a research paper in away on 2 September 2016. as one who bridged her activities from each of the next four symposia (1996– the earlier IFMC group on Dance 2002), and afterwards thoughtfully sent After studying musicology at the Terminology. As with others of her greetings to the Study Group’s Faculty of Arts of the Comenius generation, her life was challenged by Executive Committee and symposium University in Bratislava, a milestone in living through World War II, and later organizers, all the way until 2016. She his professional career came in 1965 in Poland, one of the Soviet bloc continued her ethnographic research, when he started working at the Slovak Eastern European countries that teaching dance workshops, directing National Museum, first at its Historical restricted association with “external” massive productions, publishing a Museum, and later at the Music research professionals. comprehensive lexicon of dance in Museum, to which he remained until his retirement in 2001. During the 1950s and 1960s Dąbrowska Poland (2006), archiving her research had already made contacts with dance materials, and adding to her dossier His lifelong effort was the documenta‐ ethnographers in other East European many meritorious prizes that tion of traditional musical instruments. countries such as Bulgaria, Czechoslo‐ recognized her initiatives. A result of collaboration with Oskár vakia, Romania, and Hungary. She In 2011 Dąbrowska was awarded the Elschek from the Institute of Musicolo‐ even managed to attend a conference most distinguished gold medal “Gloria gy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences hosted by Macedonia’s Institute of Artis” by the Polish Ministry of Cul‐ in the 1970s was an extensive question‐ Folklore in the former Yugoslavia, held ture and National Heritage for her naire about the research on traditional in Ohrid, where we first met. In 1972 activities towards the protection of musical instruments and four she joined the IFMC’s work group on Polish culture and national heritage. documentaries: Kôrová trúba [Rind

Bulletin of the ICTM Vol. 129 — October 2015 — Page 6 IN MEMORIAM trumpet], Malé oktávky [Small stringed al Museum. He also collaborated with instruments], Veľké oktávky [Large the Comité International des Musées et stringed instruments] and Kôrová basa Collections d'Instruments de Musique [Rind bass], that became a part of a (CIMC), where he organized seminars unique television series dedicated to and authored numerous articles. Slovak traditional musical instruments. As director of the Music Museum, The gradual extinction of bagpipes, Mačák actively participated in the fujara, signal horns and trumpets, and foundation of a musical instrument other instruments in the second half of collection in Dolná Krupá in 1986, the twentieth century led to new where 2386 traditional musical projects that focused on the documen‐ instruments, both Slovak and non‐ tation of the Slovak musical heritage. European, were deposited. Of these, In 1977 Mačák became one of leading 2216 instruments were acquired by protagonists of a new type of research Mačák, including Slovak folk musical conducted within the competition of instruments and instruments of Olena Murzyna. Photo provided by traditional musical instrument makers traditional musical cultures of the Olha Kolomyyets connected with the Ladislav Leng world, especially Indian, Chinese, and Award. The research was based on Arabian. Olena Murzyna three‐ to four-day-long meetings Mačák was also an author of numerous (1936–2016) between traditional musical instrument exhibitions of musical instruments, inc‐ makers and members of a research by Olha Kolomyyets luding “Musical instruments in Slova‐ team that included Mačák and Elschek. kia” (1975-1986), the outstanding exhi‐ Olena Murzyna, Ukrainian musicolo‐ If we are today witnessing a great bition “Slovak Folk Musical Instrument gist, ethnomusicologist, and devoted revival in the production of traditional Heritage” (1995), and an exhibition of pedagogue passed away on 7 August musical instruments in Slovakia, it is in Indian musical instruments in their 2016. All members of the Ukrainian great measure thanks to Mačák’s work. cultural context (1997). academic community were very sorry As a recognized authority with a clear to hear of Prof. Murzyna’s passing, as Mačák reached many important work opinion and unprecedented respect by she was a beloved and highly respected achievements thanks to his contacts both instrument makers and instru‐ member of the ethnomusicological and with friends and colleagues from a wide mentalists he played an extremely posi‐ musicological circles in Ukraine, and range of disciplines developed on his tive role in maintaining regional pecu‐ the effects of her death are already long-term study stays in Canada and liarities in the field of instrument mak‐ being felt by her former colleagues and India. In 2004, the American Musical ing as well as interpretation of style. students. Instrument Society bestowed on Mačák An important part of Mačák’s activities the Curt Sachs Award, which included Murzyna graduated from the Kyiv was the presentation of his research also a scholarship and a research stay State Conservatoire in 1960 with a within the ICTM Study Group on at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in degree in Musicology, and earned her (Folk) Musical Instruments. There he New York in 2005 PhD “About the Principles of Melodic presented and published several articles Declamation” in 1973 at the same Despite the fact that he struggled with on the typology of bagpipes, string institution. She began her work in 1968 a severe illness for many years, optim‐ instruments and folk music ensembles as a lecturer at the Music Theory ism did not leave Ivan Mačák until the in Slovakia, the history of shepherds’ Department, but very soon became very last days of his life. musical instruments, and the comple‐ more and more interested in Ukrainian mentarity of musical instruments in traditional music. From 1974 on she ensembles. From 1966 to 1978, Mačák conducted many fieldwork expeditions published, in cooperation with Elschek to different regions of Ukraine, from and Erich Stockmann, ten volumes of the Eastern to the Western lands. the Annual Bibliography of European Ethnomusicology at the Slovak Nation‐

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A recognized authority on folk music, her kindness and compassion to History at the Adam Mickiewicz Uni‐ and particularly on Ukrainian tradi‐ everyone around her. She will be versity (UAM) in Poznań. He held this tional musical culture, Murzyna was greatly missed and never forgotten. post for the next 25 years. During his the editor of the scientific‐methodical stay at UAM Stęszewski promoted 59 collection Problems of Ethnomusicology MA and 13 PhD students, and he was for many years. She published a multi‐ also a reviewer of many doctoral disser‐ tude of articles on a wide variety of tations both at Polish and foreign uni‐ topics, including the sociological and versities (Berlin, Paris). He also started cultural aspects of traditional music, ethnomusicological summer camps dur‐ the individual in a collective tradition, ing which students documented the pitch and mode aspects, laments and musical traditions of various regions in lyrical songs, and the musical tradi‐ Poland as well as of Polish minorities tions of the Ukrainian Steppe. During abroad. Stęszewski gave many guest her last years she worked on the thesis lectures at universities in Poland and “The Expressive World of Ukrainian abroad, in Warsaw, Cracow, Lublin, Lyric Folk Songs” for a post-doctoral Berlin, Göttingen, and Girona. degree, which unfortunately was not In addition to research and teaching, finished. Stęszewski was active in many bodies As Head of the Musical Folkloristics and societies important for Polish cul‐ Department at the Tchaikovsky ture and research. From 1969 to 1973 National Music Academy of Ukraine Jan Stęszewski. Photo provided by he was Chairman of the Musicology for twenty years (since its establish‐ Justyna Humięcka-Jakubowska Section of the Polish Composers Union, ment), Murzyna made many great and from 1973 to 1979 President of contributions to the Department and Jan Stęszewski that Union. He worked closely with helped it move forward in numerous (1929–2016) distinguished Polish composers, like ways, thus playing a key role in the Tadeusz Baird, Witold Lutosławski, development of Ukrainian education in by Justyna Humięcka-Jakubowska Zygmunt Mycielski, and Kazimierz ethnomusicology. As a member of Serocki. At that time he played an Jan Maria Stęszewski was born on 20 ICTM and Liaison Officer for Ukraine important role in revealing the April 1929 in Koźmin Wielkopolski, for many years, she made an important treasures of the Berlin Bibliothek des Poland, into a family of intellectual, contribution to the development of Preussischen Kulturbesitz, stored in bourgeois landowners. collaboration between Ukraine and Cracow since World War II. other ethnomusicological schools He completed his studies (1948-1952) For twenty years (1979-1999) he held around the world. at the University of Poznań with a the position of President of the Polish Master's thesis on the Scherzos by I am personally extremely grateful to Music Council at UNESCO, and he Frederic Chopin. For three months he Prof. Murzyna for many fruitful discus‐ was twice elected Vice President of the stayed at the Deutsches Volkslied‐ sions we have had over the years, and International Music Council (1984‐ archiv in Freiburg, Germany, where he for her professional support of my 1987). He was a member of many consulted with Walter Wiora. In 1965 research into world music traditions, boards and scientific committees of the Stęszewski earned his PhD with his which still represents a new chapter in Polish Academy of Sciences, the Nat‐ dissertation “The Historical Problems Ukrainian ethnomusicology. I am ional Frederic Chopin Institute, and of Kurpie Songs”. especially grateful for her thorough and the Centre for Folk Culture of Polish positive reference on my doctoral thesis In 1951, he began his work at the Nat‐ Radio, among others. Stęszewski was on the Kirana gharana. ional Institute of Arts (in 1959 renam‐ also co-editor of a number of series and ed into the Institute of Art of the collective works, a member of the Olena was an accomplished pedagogue Polish Academy of Sciences) until 1975, editorial board of the Musical and a beloved friend. For those who when he was offered to head the Musi‐ Encyclopedia (edited by the Polish had the privilege of calling her “friend” cology Section of the Institute of Arts Music publishing house) and the author outside of work, they were humbled by

Bulletin of the ICTM Vol. 129 — October 2015 — Page 8 IN MEMORIAM of many entries in encyclopedias such schemas characteristic for musicology, inspired new research problems and the as The New Grove Dictionary of Music he turned to interdisciplinary research. posing of unconventional questions. and Musicians and Die Musik in Prof. Stęszewski passed away on 21 Such an approach is visible in almost Geschichte und Gegenwart. For his September 2016 in Warsaw. all Stęszewski’s works. In ethnomusi‐ achievements in research and culture, cology—a field that was on the first he was awarded the highest state place among his interests—one can see medals, and in 1997 and 1998 the two‐ some duality of research. In addition to volume commemorative book Contexts the works devoted to basic issues, he of Musicology was published in Poznań also produced articles on general prob‐ to commemorate his seventieth lems such as the specificity of ethnomu‐ birthday, with the participation of sicology as a separate discipline and its forty scholars from Poland and abroad. relation to musicology, and axiology in His research activities spanned many ethnomusicological studies. Much place areas, from ethnomusicology (e.g., he devoted to the question of Polish study of rhythm in Polish folk music), musical identity, both in relation to to music history (the works by Chopin folklore and to art music. It is hardly and Szymanowski), to methodology. possible to mention all the subjects raised in his numerous articles in the Among the theoretical issues he raised field of ethnomusicology, which became that were particularly significant for important contributions to our current shaping contemporary musicology in knowledge of the Polish musical Poland, one should mention his works folklore and its extra-musical context. devoted to cultural anthropology and methodology of the humanities in gene‐ His scientific work, lectures, and semi‐ ral. Being aware of the limitations res‐ nars gained great recognition by a few ulting from rigid adherence to research generations of musicologists and have

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Don Niles receiving a medal as an Oﬃcer in the Order of Logohu from the Governor General of Papua New Guinea, Sir Michael Ogio, on 13 October 2016. Photo by Ekar Keapu.

Bulletin of the ICTM Vol. 129 — October 2015 — Page 9 WORLD CONFERENCES 44th ICTM World Conference 13-19 July 2017 Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, Limerick, Ireland

Fifth Notice and Registration Information

You are cordially invited to attend the 44th ICTM World Conference, which will be held from 13 to 19 July 2017 at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance in Limerick, Ireland.

The venue is located right on the banks of the River Shannon in a scenic and environmentally friendly campus. The Academy recently celebrated its twenti‐ eth anniversary and is home to a vari‐ ety of undergraduate and postgraduate courses that relate to the study and practice of music, song, and dance in a variety of scholarly, applied, education‐ al, arts practice, festive arts, and clinic‐ Main building of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, the venue of the al contexts. 44th ICTM World Conference. Photo by Irish World Academy of Music and Dance . During the conference, the 70th anni‐ versary of the Council will be Local Arrangements Committee Conference Themes celebrated. Catherine Foley (Co-Chair) 1. 70 Years of ICTM: Past, Present and Future Programme Committee Colin Quigley (Co-Chair) Jennifer de Brún 2017 marks the 70th anniversary of our Mohd Anis Md Nor (Co-Chair) Aileen Dillane organization. Begun in 1947 in the Stephen Wild (Co-Chair) Aoife Granville aftermath of the Second World War, Anne von Bibra Wharton Sandra Joyce the International Folk Music Council Miguel A. García (IFMC)—later changed to Internation‐ Níall Keegan David Harnish al Council for Traditional Music—was Tony Langlois Níall Keegan one of the international organizations, Mats Melin Jean Kidula with UNESCO and its aﬃliates, formed Orfhlaith Ni Bhríain Svanibor Pettan (ex oﬃcio) to re-establish networks of artists, scho‐ Colin Quigley Conference website lars, scientists, and educators that had been disrupted by war. IFMC/ICTM Susana Sardo Visit the conference website to learn has tended to represent the small or J. Lawrence Witzleben more about local arrangements, marginalized performance traditions including travel, accommodation, and rather than the great and elite tradi‐ other helpful information. tions, aligning the Council with issues of human rights, citizenship and social justice.

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✴ What has been the impact of the ✴ What do we imagine for our legacies 4. Exploring Music Analysis Council’s work on music and dance when in the hands of those who will and Movement Analysis in studies in general and on ethnomu‐ inhabit unknown futures? Ethnomusicology and sicological and ethnochoreological Ethnochoreology 3. Ethnomusicology, studies in particular? Analyses of music–sound and moving– Ethnochoreology and Digital bodies respectively are regaining signifi‐ ✴ What has been the impact of the Humanities notions of “folk music/dance” and cance in both ethnomusicological and The field of digital humanities (DH) “traditional music/dance” on the ethnochoreological research after a pe‐ was officially founded with a manifesto discursive construction of expressive riod in which they often played a sub‐ ratified in 2010 in Paris, defining digit‐ behaviour, scholarly research, and sidiary role. Long-established methods al humanities as a “transdiscipline, the ways disciplines, fields of study and techniques of analysis in both fields embodying all the methods, systems, and institutions are configured? are being modified, extended, and per‐ and heuristic perspectives linked to the haps superseded as new technologies ✴ What may be the Council’s future digital within the fields of humanities and methodologies suggest new possi‐ directions for example in relation to and the social sciences”. The institu‐ bilities. The historical shift in both regional conflicts, environmental tionalization of DH currently comprises fields from their early preoccupation change, and large-scale migration? 196 specialized research centres, based with sound and movement analysis to a in 24 countries, according to the 2. Legacy and Imagination in primary attention to “context”, as vari‐ Music and Dance observatory for digital humanities, ously understood, may have run its Centernet. The knowledge that has Legacy is a concept that both reaches course. Re-theorization of both music been produced from this perspective fo‐ back to the past and looks forward to and dance practice has attempted for cuses mainly on using digital tools and the future. In our research we have some time now to transcend, or at least resources to facilitate access to infor‐ long interrogated the processes of con‐ mediate that gap and bring these per‐ mation—as well as to process it—re‐ tinuity, transmission, and change; in spectives into conversation. There sulting in the creation of archival plat‐ effect the formation of legacies left to seems to be an opportunity at this time forms. In view of this development it is us from our forebears. We ask as well, to revisit the place of music analysis important to know where ethnomusico‐ how are they being treated in our and/or movement analysis in ethno‐ logy and ethnochoreology are situated present(s)? But we might also ask, how musicology and ethnochoreology. in the context of DH. are legacies created for future genera‐ ✴ What possibilities might be present‐ ✴ tions? Legacies may be constituted in To what extent is the quantitative ed by technologies such as motion multiple forms, including, for example, perspective of DH compatible with capture and others? the material, aural/oral, and corporeal; the qualitative profile of ethnomusi‐ ✴ Might we investigate music and they may be so constituted in many cology and ethnochoreology? dance as a unitary phenomenon? ways, through physical, social, or per‐ ✴ Does the adoption of the methods of What might analysis reveal about formative practices, for example. Lega‐ DH relegate the sensitive and emo‐ this question? cies might be found in the intellectual, tional dimensions of music and danc‐ ✴ Might the vast quantity of music artistic, and spiritual domains of life, as ing to a second level of analysis? well as many others. Processes of hu‐ and dance documentation now avail‐ ✴ How can ethnomusicology and ethno‐ man imagination are implicated in all able and their increasing sophistica‐ choreology contribute towards a three of these stages of legacy creation. tion revitalize possibilities for compa‐ “prudent technology” in the man‐ rative study? ✴ What pasts do we imagine such lega‐ agement of knowledge about music cies to represent, preserve, maintain, and dance in the context of DH? or pass on?

✴ What do we imagine we are leaving for those to come as we create our legacies, either personal or collective?

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5. Music, Dance, Religious 6. New Research on Other A lunch voucher booklet is valid for the Politics and Religious Topics six days of the conference (excluding Policies Although the Programme Committee Sunday), and is non-refundable if not Music, dance, religion, and politics are hopes that the themes announced used. endemic in human societies, and very above will encourage members to con‐ The closing date for sale of lunch frequently are strongly interlinked. sider new ways of conceptualizing their voucher booklets is Thursday 28 June This theme invites educators‐scholars‐ research data, we also recognize that 2017. performers to contextualize music and some delegates will want to present re‐ dance as these relate to enforced or search results that do not fit with any Accommodation changing religious ideologies concerning of the announced themes. This broad Delegates are encouraged to choose on music and the performing arts and cope heading is included to accommodate campus accommodation at the Univers‐ with state and religious interventions. these scholars. ity of Limerick. Cappavilla Village is The foundation here is that state and an attractive apartment style residence Registration religious politics and policies either located on the North Campus. Built on endorse, subvert, and/or attempt to The registration fee includes all the the highest point of the campus, the control the expressions and narratives conference sessions, workshops, coffee views of the surrounding counties and embodied in the performing arts for breaks on conference days and the the river Shannon are superb. All six their own purposes. Often, music and Opening Reception on 13 July. and four bedroomed apartments and dance are connected to a matrix of be‐ Early Registration Fee Until are within easy walking distance of all liefs enmeshed within the fabric of lo‐ Tuesday 11 April 2017 conference facilities. All apartments are cal, national, or global religious prac‐ furnished to the highest standard. tices, but then the ideology changes ✴ Ordinary ICTM Member: €199 and state or religious institutions exert ✴ Student ICTM Member: €99 Price is €49 per person per night, pressures upon practitioners to make including continental breakfast. Late Registration Fee After adjustments to fit this new ideology. Tuesday 11 April 2017 Please use the online registration form

✴ to book your accommodation at Cap‐ How, precisely, do music and dance ✴ Ordinary ICTM Member: €299 interact with religious politics and pavilla Village, and advise at the time ✴ Student ICTM Member: €169 policies, on a micro– or a macro– of booking if you wish to share an scale? For non-ICTM members, family mem‐ apartment with colleagues. A limited bers, and other companions, a daily number of double rooms are oﬀered to ✴ What are the artistic results of reli‐ rate is also oﬀered: €125. couples who wish to share. Families are gious nationalism in hierarchical or also welcome. Please contact more egalitarian societies? [email protected] if you wish ✴ Registration to the 2017 Can ethnomusicology or ethnochore‐ to make a booking for a double/family ology play a positive role in support‐ ICTM World Conference is or if you have any queries regarding ing music and dance and their prac‐ now open. To register, please accommodation. titioners endangered by religious politics or policies? visit the registration website. The conference organizers have negotiated special rates at the following local hotels: Lunch vouchers Please note that lunches are not includ‐ Castletroy Park Hotel (4*) ed in the registration fee. This hotel is located outside the main entrance to the University of Limerick. Lunch voucher booklets can only be purchased online in advance (not on Book directly with the hotel by email site). If lunch voucher booklets are not or phone and quote reference ICTM purchased online in advance of arrival, 2017 reservation number 186432. space will not be available in the cam‐ ✴ pus restaurants for delegates’ meals. Tel: +353 61 335566

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✴ Email: [email protected] Option A: Full day excursion See the conference website for further to the Cliffs of Moher and ✴ Single Bed & Breakfast: €100/night information on the excursions. For the Burren queries relating to the excursions, ✴ Double/Twin Bed & Breakfast: Take a trip along part of the Wild please contact Orfhlaith Ní Bhriain. €110/night Atlantic Way and you will experience Exhibitors Kilmurry Lodge Hotel (3*) the magnificent Cliffs of Moher which The conference organizers will provide Located approximately 1.5 km away loom large over the Atlantic Ocean. tables for displaying and selling of rele‐ from the University of Limerick on Continue your journey to explore The vant books, audio, audio-visual, and Dublin Road, Castletroy, Limerick. Burren with its karst topography, rare flora and fauna, and the historical other materials during the conference. Book directly with the hotel by email stone circle and Poll na Brón Dolmen. If you are interested in exhibiting such or phone and quote ICTM2017 Lunch in the quaint fishing village of materials, please contact Tony Langlois reservation number 224969. Doolin. of the Local Arrangements Committee. Early booking is advisable as ✴ Tel: +353 61 331133 ext 1 Total cost including lunch: €35 space is limited! ✴ Email: [email protected] Option B: Half Day Excursion ✴ Single Bed & Breakfast: €99/night to Bunratty Castle and Folk Entertainment (1-3 nights), €89/night (4 nights or Park There will be music and dance works‐ more) Bunratty Castle, built in 1425, is the hops and a programme of concerts and informal sessions organized by the ✴ Twin/Double Bed & Breakfast: most complete and authentic medieval LAC. Please bring your instruments €109/night (1-3 nights), €99/night fortress in Ireland and contains furnish‐ and dancing shoes. For queries relating (4 nights or more) ings, tapestries, and works of art from to concerts, please contact Orfhlaith Ní The city of Limerick also offers a wide that period. Bhriain. range of other accommodations if you Bunratty Folk Park, set on 26 acres, is prefer to stay further from campus. a stunning recreation of nineteenth cen‐ Local Arrangements Information Buses and taxis provide convenient tury Ireland and features various types Limerick is a compact and accessible access to the city and the campus. of farmhouses, a church, a magical city with lots on offer for visitors. Built Excursions walled garden and village street on the banks of the majestic river complete with pub, post office, and Shannon, Limerick’s origins date from Excursions will need to be booked in various shops. at least the 812 Viking settlement. In advance when registering. the twelfth century, the city was rede‐ Total cost excluding lunch: €18 signed by the Normans and this archi‐

The Cliﬀs of Moher and Bunratty Castle, the excursion possibilities which will be available at the 44th ICTM World Conference.

Bulletin of the ICTM Vol. 133 — January 2017 — Page 13 WORLD CONFERENCES tecture is represented in St. John’s has in excess of 300 students from over and will be linked from the April 2017 Castle, a major tourist attraction in the 30 different countries. The Irish World issue of the Bulletin of the ICTM. city today. In medieval times, Limerick Academy works closely with a network was the seat of the Kingdom of of international scholarship through its Thomond, which gives its name to the visiting world renowned scholars, city’s rugby stadium. external examiners and co-supervisors and through its shared research and Limerick City and its surrounding teaching programmes across the globe. areas in the West of Ireland provide It also engages with musicians, singers, many opportunities for encountering and dancers locally, nationally, and traditional music and dance. It is con‐ internationally. Not surprisingly, venient to some of the heartlands of intercultural exchange and interaction Irish traditional music, and home to in music, song, and dance is an significant numbers of new immigrants increasing phenomenon. whose musical traditions have become a feature of cultural life in the region. Further information The University of Limerick is located Register today and avail of the four kilometres from Limerick City, early bird fee! which is easily accessible. Shannon For further information please see the Airport is just 25 kilometres from the conference website. University. There are direct airport buses connecting both Shannon and For registration, accommodation, or Dublin airports with the university. travel queries, please contact our local Shannon, whilst more convenient, nor‐ conference organizer Limerick Travel, mally requires travellers to connect Bedford Row, Limerick, Ireland, through Paris or London for onward [email protected], tel: +353 61 travel. Flight connections to the US are 204432, fax: +353 61 416336. excellent from Shannon. Flight connec‐ We look forward to meeting you all in tions from Dublin are excellent to Eu‐ Limerick in July! rope, and travel from Dublin to Lime‐ rick is convenient by both bus and rail. Timeline The Irish World Academy of Music ✴ First notice: October 2015 and Dance was established at the Uni‐ ✴ Second notice and call for proposals: versity of Limerick in 1994 with the January 2016 creation of the first Chair of Music. ✴ Third notice and call for proposals: Under the direction of its Founder and April 2016 Director, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, it has ✴ grown from its initial formation as a Deadline for submission of proposals: centre for postgraduate research in mu‐ 30 September 2016 sic and dance to an academy comprised ✴ Notification of acceptances: of two undergraduate programmes, December 2016 eleven taught postgraduate ✴ Registration start: January 2017 programmes and two PhD tracks. Encompassing a wide range of speciali‐ ✴ Early bird registration deadline: 11 zations from Irish traditional music and April 2017 dance to classical strings, ethnochoreo‐ logy, ethnomusicology, chant and ritual The Preliminary Programme will be song, community music, music therapy, made available on the ICTM website and music education among others, it

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Symposium of Study post-symposium excursion, etc., on the The deadline for submission of Study Group’s website. abstracts is 15 February 2017. Group on African Musics Further information about the sympo‐ In conjunction with the SEM Annual 9–12 August 2018 sium, including the full Call for Pro‐ Meeting, Colorado College and the Legon, Ghana posals, can be found on the Study SEM Indigenous Music Section will Submissions deadline: 1 Jul 2017 Group’s website. present a pre-conference symposium, The 2nd Symposium of the ICTM “Sound Alliances: A Celebration of Study Group on African Musics will be Symposium of Study Indigenous Musics and Cultures,” on 25 October in Colorado Springs. held from 9 to 12 August 2018 at the Group on Musical Department of Music of the University of Ghana in Legon. Instruments

The main theme of the symposium will 5–8 April 2017 be “African Music Scholarship in the Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Twenty-ﬁrst Century: Challenges and The 21st Symposium of the ICTM Directions”, with a number of related Study Group on Musical Instruments sub-themes. will be held from 5 to 8 April 2017 at The deadline for submissions for pro‐ the Academy of Music of the posals is 1 July 2017. University of Sarajevo.

Further information about the sympo‐ For the programme, abstracts, and sium, including the full Call for Pro‐ important local arrangements posals, can be found on the Study information please visit the Study Group’s website. Group’s website.

Symposium of Study Society for Group on Ethnochoreology Ethnomusicology 2017 Annual Meeting 21–28 July 2018 Budapest, Hungary 26-29 October 2017 Denver, CO, USA The 30th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology will Submissions deadline: 15 Feb 2017 be held from 21 to 28 July 2018 in The Society for Ethnomusicology will Budapest, jointly by the Department of hold its 62nd Annual Meeting on 26-29 Ethnology, University of Szeged, and October 2017, at the Denver Marriott the Research Centre for the Huma‐ City Center Hotel, co‐hosted by the nities at the Institute for Musicology of University of Denver, the University of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Colorado Boulder, and Colorado

Themes of the symposium will follow in College. For the Call for Proposals, due course together with a formal Call abstract submission instructions, and preliminary meeting information, please for Presentations and further informa‐ tion on the symposium including visit the SEM website. travel, accommodation, registration,

Bulletin of the ICTM Vol. 133 — January 2017 — Page 15 ANNOUNCEMENTS Announcements — Related Organizations 10th Conference for This appeal is also directed to all Uni‐ Symposium on Education versities, Museums, Libraries, Archives Researches of Folk Music and any other world institutions hold‐ and Social Inclusion in Red Rus’ and Adjacent ing collections that include Nepali 20–21 July 2017 Lands music and other cultural materials to London, UK likewise consider entering into a repa‐ Submissions deadline: 1 Mar 2017 21–22 April 2017 triation agreement to provide digital Lviv, Ukraine copies or originals to the Music A symposium will be held at SOAS, Museum of Nepal. MMN cannot pay University of London, on the topic of The Mykola Lysenko National Music for repatriated copies because, although education and social inclusion. The Academy of Lviv is delighted to invite it is a Nepal Government Registered symposium will focus on exploring proposals for the jubilee Conference for Charity, it is not in receipt of govern‐ multifaceted educational practices in Researchers of Folk Music in Red Rus’ mental or any other kind of regular relation to a wide spectrum of issues, (Galician-Wolodymyrian) and Adjacent funding. It is a shame that substantial including education and representation, Lands in honour of the 70th birthday collections of Nepal’s musical heritage issues of identity in education, social of Bohdan Lukaniuk. The conference are available to foreign researchers but inclusion and education, and education will be held on 21–22 April 2017. are not easily accessible to Nepali and international development.

The themes of the conference range researchers who suﬀer from lack of We recognize groups that have been funds and less advanced technological from the topical problems in folk music historically excluded, including women research of Red Rus’ and neighbouring resources than more developed and girls, ethnic minorities, people with regions to the ethnomusicology of the countries. disabilities, and the marginalized. second half of the twentieth century: Contact These groups have been systematically trends, achievements, and prospects. un- or under-represented in music edu‐ Ram Prasad Kadel Please send your proposals to cation, reﬂecting wider social discrimi‐ Music Museum of Nepal nation in ways that through education [email protected]. For additional Mahadev Bahal information please visit this website. shape society at large. Tripureshwor, Kathmandu, Nepal. email & website We invite ICTM members to attend Music Museum of Nepal and submit proposals for Papers (20 minute duration + 10 minute discus‐ The Music Museum of Nepal (MMN) sion) and alternative presentations appeals to all music researchers, music (length to be negotiated on a case‐by‐ lovers and indeed anyone who has case basis). Please submit abstracts of visited Nepal at any time, especially up to 250 words to: Sara Selleri and before the civil war, and has music or Keith Howard by 1 March 2017. other cultural recordings or photo‐ graphs in their possession to please The intention of this symposium is to consider returning digital copies or set the groundwork towards the originals to Nepal. MMN will fully recognition of a new ICTM Study acknowledge any donations, preserve Group on Education and Social them, catalogue them carefully, and Inclusion. make copies available to national and international researchers in their reading room on request.

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Cyprus demic lecture-recitals featuring the own, but also as a musical resource in works of those Cypriot composers who building national musical cultures. by Nefen Michaelides, used elements of Cypriot traditional Through the use of local and regional Liaison Officer music in their compositions. The first features in their works, composers aim lecture-recital in this series took place to contribute to the high positioning of The aims of ICTM are on 26 June 2016 in Limassol, dedicated their countries in the arena of global usually defined as relat‐ to the Cypriot composer Phanos musical culture. ed to the study, practice, Dymiotis (1965–2007), who transform‐ documentation, preservation, and dis‐ Dymiotis and his “Duo for violin and ed a Cypriot traditional music motif in semination of traditional music. This piano” fit well into this frame. The his “Duo for violin and piano”, compos‐ should not be understood as a limita‐ piece emerged from a competition ed in 1985. The first half of the event tion; music scholars sometimes go be‐ launched by the Cyprus Ministry of was marked by the performance of yond these aims to encourage and ex‐ Education. The composer was only 20 Menelaos Menelaou (violin) and plain various developments, in which years old when he wrote the piece. Katalina Teikan (piano) and the traditional music is used as a valuable second by a lecture based on my ethno‐ I served as member of the jury at that resource for shaping new musical pro‐ musicological research on Cypriot competition in 1985, so I presented to ducts. In other words, it is important tsiattista, inscribed in the Representa‐ the audience present at the lecture‐ to cooperate with professional compos‐ tive List of the Intangible Cultural recital a part of my report written ers and performers in order to diversify Heritage of humanity in 2011. three decades ago: “In this piece, the the expressive power of traditional mu‐ composer expressed a genius treatment sic and to broaden its accessibility and It was explained to the audience that of a theme from traditional Cypriot appeal by addressing new audiences. traditional music is an important music. It is a work of the twentieth intangible resource, which was and still In this respect, I have taken the ini‐ century atonal music. Every note and continues to be used in various parts of tiative in organizing a series of aca‐ every bar came from the melody of the the world, not only as a value of its given theme without being the theme itself, and herein lies the greatness of the composer. He dissolved the given theme into its smallest atomic elements and spread them throughout the com‐ position in a masterly way, creating a dialogue between the violin and the piano. Only in the coda he brings all components of the given theme together, presenting the melody in its original form”.

The lecture further elaborated on Dymiotis’s composition and contextual‐ ized his work in general, but also mov‐ ed forward to point to some younger Cypriot composers, such as Andreas Tsiartas (born in 1986), who besides Nefen Michaelides presenting her research on the work of Phanos Dymiotis. June traditional Cypriot music uses in his 2016, Limassol, Cyprus. Photo provided by Nefen Michaelides.

Bulletin of the ICTM Vol. 133 — January 2017 — Page 17 REPORTS compositions traditional music of traditional music in school from an disticha, the Ode to Joy in Beethoven’s countries such as Armenia (Taqsimi on early age alongside the native language Ninth Symphony being a good exam‐ an Armenian lamento) and Iran ensures its vibrant survival. Each ple. The melody of the ode reflects all (Ay-wahda-yorû). generation receives from the previous the characteristics of the disticho: the one, adds to these achievements, and in two symmetrically imisticha being plac‐ The efforts in the past decade to revive turn delivers them to the next genera‐ ed in two symmetrical melodic phrases. traditional Cypriot music in Cyprus tion. This act of receiving, adding and The rhyming words that connect the with live performances by various delivering, is eternal. two imisticha appear in music with the ensembles are commendable, but in the known form of question and response long term they should be strengthened In this way the tsiattista, one of the or Open Close End, that is, a perfect by professional performers and most ancient Cypriot musical forms, cadenza. This form of poetry offers performances. This requires extensive has survived until today. The tsiattista composers a valuable musical material study of musical features, repertoires, (disticho, qașīdah, reimpaar, or for creation of their works. The disticha and instruments, or in short a music couplets) is of Middle Eastern origin appear in a variety of art music forms, education starting at the childhood and its existence is documented as including sonata, concerto, symphony, level. The majority of performers of early as the fourth century AD. In his and a number of vocal forms. traditional Cypriot music, both singers book West–East Divan, the great and instrumentalists, are autodidacts German poet and writer Johann The question of who are the inventors who keep precious spiritual resources of Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) of this form of poetry is of secondary the country alive and prevent their refers to the poetry in the Middle East, importance. More important for music extinction. It would certainly be helpful paying particular attention to the scholarship is the fact that this form of if Cyprus would get a state professional poems created in poetic duels. These poetry can lead us to the traces of music school and academic state battles that used to take place in creation of the sequence in music. The institution for traditional music. ancient times, when poets during melodic phrase of the first imisticho is festivities competed with each other in transferred across to the second There are more than forty ensembles the same form, become known in imisticho on a different tone. Close for traditional music and dance in Cyprus as tsiattista. association of sequence with the Cyprus performing at various festivi‐ disticho leads to the assumption that ties, like the wine festival organized Later on the tsiattista developed into the sequence in music was created every September by the Limassol muni‐ disticha (couplets), maintaining the when the music was set to a disticho cipality, the Cataclysm festival orga‐ diptych diachronic geometric principle poem. nized by the municipality of Larnaca, upon which it was built, and crossed the international festival for traditional the borders of the Middle East, reach‐ To conclude, one of the research dance and music organized by the ing other parts of the world. What interests of music scholarship in Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture, distinguishes the disticha poems from refers to the processes of modification weddings, and special evenings for other forms is its geometrical shape, of patterns originating in traditional tourists in hotels and restaurants. the horizontal diptych symmetry, the culture through the use of various Cyprus TV has a major role in reviving two symmetrical imisticha (half verse) procedures and techniques. As shown Cypriot traditional music thanks to its interconnected through rhyme. It is a in this report, the tsattista impacted regular weekly presentations of form in which one must enter the text disticha (couplets) and disticha ensembles performing traditional into the melody and a mould that impacted several art music forms. The Cypriot music and dance. limits the duration and the structure of format of a lecture‐recital, which the melody. proved suitable for scholarly, artistic, Research in traditional music should and educational elaborations of such not be limited to collecting and record‐ To date, poets around the world write processes, will continue within the ing, because collections and recordings poems in the form of disticha. This scope of the aforementioned series in sometimes get lost or destroyed due to form has inspired not only poets, but the upcoming years. wars, natural disasters, and other cala‐ also well-known composers such as mities. The safest place for the preser‐ Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, vation of traditional music as a living Brahms, Schumann, and others, who praxis is the human brain. Learning have set to music a large number of

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Madagascar This gathering showed that improvisa‐ heritage of Madagascar, in all its rich tion is found in diverse genres in vari‐ and not‐very‐well- known diversity, the by Mireille Mialy, ous time periods, in classical and folk continuation of extensive research and Liaison Officer traditions alike. It pointed out to the the issuing of publications remain our existence of basic structural elements priorities. We would wish to experience Ethnomusicology is from which improvisation occurs. an increase of scholarly cooperation developing positively in and exchanges with foreign universities. Madagascar, as can be Finally, and after many years of work, seen in the increased variety of research a project researching the settlement of topics and teaching subjects. Madagascar, studying the migratory Malta flows that contributed to the makeup While the central, western, eastern, by Philip Ciantar, of the main island’s population, is and northern parts of the island have Liaison Officer coming to an end. The project was con‐ been subject to extended research in ducted in collaboration with several In March 2016, the the past, traditional music and culture Malagasy and foreign universities, inc‐ School of Performing in the southern part are only nowadays luding the University of Bordeaux and Arts (University of the focus of several researchers, both France’s National Scientific Research Malta) held a conference Malagasy and foreign. Interest in the Centre, CNRS. The organological study entitled “21st Century Performance insufficiently explored and largely un‐ of the country’s musical instruments and Research”. During this three-day known southern part of Madagascar is played a major role in this project, interdisciplinary conference in Valletta, on rise thanks to the research done on confirming the linguistic, anthropolo‐ papers from dance, music, and theatre genres such as tsapiky and beko, featur‐ gical, and archaeological findings that studies enquired into performance as a ing singing and dancing, as well as the had been done in this context. space of investigative practice and re‐ use of the advantages of modern tech‐ search that responds to a range of chal‐ nology. This brings us to a balance in The project concluded that Madagas‐ lenges marking the twenty-first centu‐ terms of the geographical distribution car's population is of Austronesian, ry. One of the three keynote speakers of research and of the musical instru‐ Polynesian, African, and Arabian for this conference was Jonathan Stock ments mapping, as already presented in origin. The arrivals of these population (School of Music and Theatre, Univer‐ the previous reports to the Bulletin. strata in successive waves, their socio‐ sity College, Cork), who delivered a economic contributions and political Our laboratory has been approached by speech titled “Performing the Global influences are more or less evident in the SAGE Encyclopedia seeking contri‐ Village: Making Music in the 21st different regions. Moreover, Madagas‐ butions about musical developments Century”. Stock assessed contrasting car's strength lies in its language, with throughout the history of Madagascar, aspects of performative shifts in the vernacular varieties and ancestral pointing to various influences, assimi‐ new century with an accent on the traditions expressed with regional lation, and to the emergence of new acquisition of expertise in performing specifics. types of voices and instruments along musical styles from diverse musical this process. Education in ethnomusicology has also cultures. The two other keynote made a major breakthrough in Mada‐ speakers were Christopher Balme We participated in a regional workshop gascar. A programme is being taught at (Institut für Theaterwissenschaft, on improvisation, which took place at the University in the Faculty of Letters Ludwig‐Maxilians‐Universität, Munich) the Institute of Civilization, University and Social Sciences. For now, only a and Sarah Whatley (Centre for Dance of Reunion Island. It was co‐organized Master’s degree has been recognized. Research, Coventry University) for by IRD (Institute of Research for theatre and dance, respectively. Papers Development) and IRCAM (Institute As a conclusion, we can say that delivered during this conference with a for Music/Acoustic Research and ethnomusicology in Madagascar begins focus on interdisciplinary studies in Coordination) from France, an institu‐ to be appreciated and recognized as a music included those of Leila Tayeb tion dedicated to the study and crea‐ full scholarly subject and is increasingly (Northwestern University, USA) on tion of contemporary music. Many attracting young Malagasy researchers. mobility and performance ethnography famous researchers in their respective For the sake of development of in the 21st century, David Kjar fields participated in the workshop. research on the cultural and artistic (Roosevelt University, Chicago, USA)

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both in Malta and internationally. He also met ethnomusicology graduates Fernando Benito and Juan Sebastián Correa Cáceres with whom he worked on a number of żaqq transcriptions for his current project on Maltese folk music. In 2013, Partridge and Jeal handed to the Malta National Archives field documents, audio recordings, photographs, slides, and folk music instruments including the żaqq, żafżafa (friction drum), chanters, reeds, and different components of the Research session on the Maltese żaqq with Karl Partridge at the Music Studies instruments that farmers had given Department, University of Malta. From left to right: Karl Partridge, Philip them during their fieldwork in Malta Ciantar, Fernando Benito, and Juan Sebastián Correa Cáceres. Photo provided by between 1971 and 1973. Partridge often Philip Ciantar. plays the żaqq in County Down in Northern Ireland and at international on performance philosophy for the 21st TRAD.ATTACK! with Estonian folk conferences and festivals. century early music movement, Reuben fusion music, and the Tuareg band Pace (School of Performing Arts, Uni‐ EZZA who blended modern rock versity of Malta) on electronic vocal sounds with Tuareg and North African Montenegro music concepts transferred to the music. Along with this line-up of inter‐ by Zlata Marjanović, acoustic domain, and that of the pres‐ national musicians and Maltese għana Liaison Officer ent writer on interdisciplinary team‐ singers the festival also featured the work in the investigation of a Maltese participation of Maltese World Music On 16 February 2016, wind band performance. Other papers band Cushion with their Indian fusion the volume with enquired the space between music and sounds, the band Każinska and its proceedings from the theatre or dance, such as in contribu‐ jazzy interpretation of traditional 2015 edition of the tions by Sebastian Stauss (Ludwig‐ Maltese banda marches, and the rock “Ethno Camp Kolašin” (edited by Maximilians‐Universität, Munich) on band Mistura with original songs in Davor Sedlarević and myself) was reviewing music theatre as in‐between Maltese fused with elements of blues, promoted in the TV show “Morning mediation of the performing arts, rock, and folk. More information about Programme” of the Montenegrin state Thanos Polymeneas-Liontiris the 2016 Għanafest can be found here. channel RTCG1. The volume features (University of Sussex) on remediating thirteen papers focusing on different In July 2016, the Music Studies depart‐ music theatre, Mario Frendo (School of aspects of traditional dance in ment of the School of Performing Arts, Performing Arts, University of Malta) Montenegro, Serbia, and Romania and University of Malta, had the honour on musical dramaturgies, and Gdalit on the importance of Intangible and pleasure to host Karl Partridge, a Neuman (York University, Toronto) on Cultural Heritage. consultant ecologist by profession, who Max Nordau’s Jew idea and its mani‐ forty years ago documented with Frank The “Dani Stefana Mitrov Ljubiše” festation in pre-state Israeli folk dance. Jeal the żaqq (the Maltese bagpipe) and [Days of Stefan Mitrov Ljubiša] were This year’s Malta World Music festival, published their findings in a 1977 issue held at the Ethnographic Museum in known as Għanafest, was held between of The Galpin Society Journal. It was Belgrade, Serbia, from Society “Drobni 10 and 12 June 2016 at the Argotti the first ethnographic study on this Pijesak”. Three publications were Gardens in Floriana. The international extinct instrument. During his visit, presented on this occasion: line-up for this year’s festival included Partridge played żaqq music to 1. Nevjesta u svadbenom krugu [The the trio Siventés with their vivid inter‐ students and talked about the bride in a wedding circle] by Mila pretations of thirteenth‐century trouba‐ instrument’s making and his efforts to Medigović Stefanović. The author dour music, the Estonian group preserve it and generate interest in it discussed issues related to her

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Participants of “Ethno Camp Kolašin 2016”. August 2016, Kolašin, Montenegro. Photo by Davor Sedlarević.

many years of researching Paštro‐ 2015) [To the coast for great with more than 100 contributions from vići cultural heritage, specifically augury: Selected papers of the almost 100 authors from various fields about the female position, rights, music traditions of the Bay of related to Paštrovići: socio-economic and emotional boundaries. Kotor, Grbalj, Budva, Maine, development issues, tourism, natural Pobori, Brajići, Budva, Paštrovići, resources, environment, sports, educa‐ 2. Začuh vilu u dubravu đe pjesan and Spič (2005–2015)] by Zlata tion, emigration, culture, literature, poje: zbornik radova o paštrovskoj i Marjanović. The book discusses the art, music, ethnology, archaeology, budvanskoj muzičkoj tradiciji i wealth of music traditions, the history, biographies, obituaries, etc. srodnim temama [I heard a fairy diversity of styles, and the common Please visit these websites to learn singing in an oak forest: Proceed‐ features and differences present in more about the event. ings of Paštrovići and Budva music all selected areas. The presentation tradition sand related topics] edited The forth issue of the journal Lirica was accompanied by singing and by Dušan Medin and Zlata (edited by Milan Kovačević) was playing by students of the Marjanović. These proceedings are presented on 29 July 2016 at the Department for Traditional Music the result of two roundtables held Ethnographic Museum in Perast. The and Singing of the music high in Belgrade, Serbia, on 1 March volume is dedicated to the composer, school “Stevan Mokranjac” of 2014 and in Petrovac na Moru, music writer, conductor, and melo‐ Kraljevo. Montenegro, on 17–19 August grapher Dionisie de Sarno di San 2014. The proceedings feature forty All books were published by the Giorgio (Naples, 1856–Perast, 1937), papers by thirty-three authors Society Drobni Pijesak and the Society who skilfully restored, conducted, and about the music tradition present for Cultural Development Bauo educated musicians in the Gradska in the Paštrovići and Budva areas. (Petrovac na Moru). Please visit this muzika [urban brass-orchestra music of page to learn more about the event. Kotor]. De Sarno, as a great devotee of 3. Primorju na veliko znamenje: the music traditions of the Bay of odabrani radovi o muzičkoj The Paštrovski almanah II [Pastrovići Kotor, and in particular of Perast, tradiciji Boke Kotorske, Grblja, almanac vol. 2] by Miroslav Luketić recorded 15 traditional Perast songs Budve, Maina, Pobora, Brajića, was presented on 21 July 2016 in and published them in his collection Budve, Paštrovića i Spiča (2005– Budva. The volume features 650 pages Memory from Perast. These songs were

Bulletin of the ICTM Vol. 133 — January 2017 — Page 21 REPORTS considered, analysed, and interpreted in Nikšić, Sabahudin Selmanović, Faruk fort and in all kinds of life rituals and Lirica vol. 4 by Zlata Marjanović, Dizdarević, Milorad Mićo Miranović, ceremonies, and also sent local govern‐ concluding that the Perast vocal Omer Talović, Almira Suljević, Faruk ment messages, by drumming, to near‐ tradition of the de Sarno age was part Ibišbegović, and Emir Pekić. by settlements. They were retained by of the wider South Adriatic area, and the fort and allocated rations of rice Please visit this website to learn more that some songs probably originated and also supported themselves by about the event. from Perast traditions. The volume tailoring and farming. also reproduces musical arrangements Gandharba musicians inhabited the by de Sarno intended for klapa singing. Nepal same mid-hill area, but usually there Please visit this website to learn more by Ram Prasad Kadel, was only one Gandharba settlement per about this event. Liaison officer four or five villages. Their instruments The second “Ethno Camp Kolašin” was were sārangi and ārbajo and they were This report is the first held between 1 and 7 August 2016 in also poets. Like the Damai, the ever from Nepal to the Kolašin, co-organized by the Centre for Gandharba learned their arts and Bulletin of ICTM, so I Culture Kolašin, the Cultural Society crafts from their gurus. They travelled can only attempt to give a brief over‐ Mijat Mašković Kolašin, the Centre for from door to door, playing and singing view of the current status of traditional the Study and Revitalization of Tradi‐ bhajan (hymns and songs from the music in this diverse country. There tional Dances and Songs from Kolašin, Hindu great epics) and karkha (histori‐ are more than 100 ethnic groups and and partially financed by the Ministry cal songs of heroes and bravery), and castes and an equal number of lan‐ of Culture of Montenegro. The mentor carrying news. In return for their guages in Nepal, in a geographical of the camp was ethnomusicologist entertainment, musicians received region which includes low‐lying plains Martina Karan. money or food from householders. and the highest mountains in the The activities done at the “Ethno world. The topography has been The Kapali gurukul only existed within Camp” are an excellent example of how responsible for considerable isolation and around the Kathmandu Valley. to study traditional song and dance in between communities and consequently Every temple required five musicians to Montenegro. This year, the primary each group has developed its own play the melodies of morning and aim of the camp was to archive exten‐ distinctive music culture. evening ārati and of religious festivals. sive material recorded in 2015, but the The Kapali knew the festival calendar Traditionally Nepal’s music culture event also included a series of lectures and the different melodies played for passed from parent to child and guru and workshops on dance and singing by various temple festivals held at differ‐ to disciple, with precious little ever Vesna Karin, Igor Popov, Ana Ćirić, ent time intervals and also the specific recorded. The traditional archive was Predrag Šušić, Dušan Medin, and melodies for each temple god; the in the hearts and minds of the gurus, Anđela Lambeta. The participants were Kapali instruments were muhāli, masters, of the gurukul in each musi‐ fourteen students of ethnomusicology dholak, nagarā, and chhushyā. When a cian caste's community and also of the departments from universities in new temple was established the temple Vedic gurukul. Belgrade, Novi Sad (Serbia), and Banja guthie (committee), made provision for Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina), as well A Damai community lived in every the musicians by setting aside land for as local researchers and students. village of the mid-hill area, always their food. located near the fort of the ruling class. Please visit these websites to learn The Badi musician caste makes musical They played panchai bājā, a group of more about the event. instruments, a great variety of drums, five different instruments representing from hide and wood. Their gurus held A roundtable on sevdalinka was held on the five elements, played by nine musi‐ the knowledge about which animal skin 7 October 2016 in Pljevlja as part of cians and led by their guru. The guru was best for which instrument and for the project “Specifics of Bošnjaci knew all the instruments and melodies the purpose that drum would be Culture”, supported by the Ministry of and the formats of all rituals and was played. They had a great knowledge Culture of Serbia. Participants of the responsible for teaching the next gene‐ about woods and the many, often roundtable were Sanja Radinović, ration. Damai musicians played morn‐ secret, ingredients of tuning pastes. Ulvija Mušović, Nadir Dacić, Naka ing and evening for the goddess of the

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included ﬁne arts, music, and drama, which are now in separate academies. The Nepal Folklore Council, Lokbarta Parishad, holds an annual traditional folklore symposium and publishes a journal.

Tribhuvan University’s music Depart‐ ment, the oldest institutional music department, is mainly concerned with Indian classical music but hopes to develop a course in ethnomusicology in the near future. Kathmandu University is a more recent, private university but its music department is highly regarded especially for its ethnomusicology de‐ gree course. Radio Nepal, the National Musicians playing Damau in western Nepal. Photo provided by Ram Prasad Kadel. Radio Station established in 1951, holds the largest archive of Nepali trad‐ In the last 40-50 years these gurukul Since Baké's time several other ethno‐ itional music, in Singha Durbar, Kath‐ systems have diminished considerably musicologists, musicians, music lovers, mandu. Nepal Television, founded in and only remnants remain, but the Peace Corps volunteers, and tourists 1985, now too has an extensive archive Vedic gurukul still exists in various have followed in his footsteps, record‐ of folk music. Many musicians and locations, notably in the Pashupatinath ing Nepal’s musical heritage for shorter singers first recorded by Radio Nepal temple in the Kathmandu Valley. Its or longer periods. These recordings were subsequently re-recorded for tele‐ pupils study Vedic and other Sanskrit may now be in museums, archives, li‐ vision. The hundreds of local FM radio chants and rituals. The Vedic Gurukuls braries, music departments, and pri‐ stations around the country have also were attacked and disrupted during the vate collections anywhere in the world, contributed to disseminating tradition‐ civil war of 1995–2006 but have since but only very recently have we seen al music and have archives of varying been re-established. Many other rituals some of these recordings returned to sizes but these are often lost or and jātra (festivals), which historically Nepal. Notable collections repatriated destroyed when a station ceases to have been the main outlets for tradi‐ to MMN include those of Carol Tingey broadcast. tional music, were also discontinued (UK), Claudio Perucchini (Switzer‐ during the civil war, and some have land), Mireille Helffer (France), and Only in the last two to three genera‐ never been reinstated. John Baily (UK), while others have tions has endemic traditional music been promised, such as those of Pirkko been recorded more widely within The first foreign ethnomusicologist to Moisala (Finland) and Tomoko Fuji Nepal. MMN is the most active institu‐ visit Nepal and record traditional (Japan). tion collecting, conserving, and promot‐ music and dance was a Dutchman, ing Nepal’s traditional music and dance Arnold Baké, who visited in 1931 and Contemporary Nepali institutions and heritage. It holds the largest and most again in 1955. His recordings were the organizations involved in researching, comprehensive collection of indigenous first made in Nepal and are now held documenting and preserving Nepal’s musical instruments and has been by the British Library (BL). The Music musical heritage include Sanscritik building up its audiovisual archive and Museum of Nepal (MMN) was able to Sansthan (Nepal Cultural Corpora‐ carrying out countrywide ethnomusico‐ document Baké’s Nepalese film footage tion), housed in the National Theatre, logical research since its foundation in in 2011, and has since received digital which hosts regular performances of 1995. These days MMN is digitizing its copies of all of Baké’s Nepalese ethno‐ traditional music, dance, and drama. own archival recordings; this work has musicological recordings under a repa‐ The Nepal Academy (formerly the been made possible by an award from triation agreement with BL. Royal Nepal Academy), is now princi‐ the Endangered Archives Programme pally concerned with language and (EAP) administered by the British literature research, but previously

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Library. The first phase of this that the ten-year civil war began in ble voice and many musical achieve‐ programme was completed in 2015 and Nepal and, like ICTM, was partly ments will be remembered. the second phase began in September established to re-connect a network of 2016. MMN does not have sufficient traditional musicians, singers, dancers, resources within Nepal to put its and associated arts and craft-workers archival materials online, but under the disconnected by war. The guru-pupil agreement with EAP the collection and relationships can never be fully re‐ its detailed catalogue is being uploaded established because too many young‐ and will be made universally available sters have long left their home villages on BL’s website. MMN does, however, and the vital link has been severed, but make its archival collections fully avail‐ MMN endeavours to capture in audio able to both national and international and audiovisual recordings as much of students, musicians, researchers, etc., Nepal’s musical heritage as can be free of charge, and by prior appoint‐ gleaned from the elderly gurus, still ment, in its reading room. The collect‐ living, before they take their precious ion is, of course, not available for knowledge to the grave. reproduction, especially not for commercial purposes. In addition MMN Sri Lanka W.D. Amaradeva with his invention has, this year, received an award from the mandoharp veena. Unknown photo ICHCAP towards digitizing Nepal’s by Lasanthi credit. Music Cultural Intangible Heritage. Manaranjanie Kalinga Dona, Liaison Officer In 2011, with the intention of reaching PhD Dissertations out to other world traditional music This report encompasses ✴ Alawathukotuwa, M.S.B. “Evolution cultures, MMN established an annual the activities of Sri Lan‐ of Sound Recording Techniques and kan ethnomusicologists and of those of International Folk Music Film Festival Their Impact on the Growth of (IFMFF) with the theme “Music for foreign origin with research focus on Sri Music in Sri Lanka”. University of Life, Music for Survival”. It was an Lanka in the period 2010-2016. Follow‐ Delhi, India, 2013 immediate success, and hundreds of ing the expression of respect to a re‐ ✴ Dias, Ruwin R. “Harmonic Progres‐ ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, cently passed-away musical icon, it pre‐ sions of Hindi Film Songs Based on film‐makers, and students from numer‐ sents the matter under four headings: North Indian Ragas”. Putra ous countries have since submitted PhD dissertations, Publications, Festi‐ their work to the festival, co‐organized vals, and Ethnomusicology education. University, Malaysia, 2015 in the last 2 years by Sanskritik ✴ Field, Garrett. “Music for the Major‐ A remarkable Sri Lankan singer, Sansthan. The first and fifth festivals ity: Sinhala Song and the 1956 Cul‐ violinist, composer, and teacher, W.D. included in the programme a one-day tural Revolution of Sri Lanka”. Amaradeva (1927-2016) recently passed international symposium on traditional Wesleyan University, USA, 2013 away. His creative work encompassed music. A new development for this theatre plays, films, teledramas, clas‐ ✴ Kalinga Dona, Lasanthi Manaran‐ year’s festival, was the provision of a sical music, and most of all sarala gi janie. “Therapeutic Aspects of South short training course on music film‐ (light classical music genre), incorpo‐ Asian Musics: Case Studies from Sri making, taught by award‐winning film‐ rating Sri Lankan traditional music, Lanka and North India”. University maker Karen Boswall, and the result‐ Indian classical music, Western art and of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2010 ant films were screened at the festival. popular music, and other musical All films selected for screening at domains. He was a widely-respected ✴ IFMFF are added to the special Meddegoda, Chinthaka. “Musical musician, recipient of many domestic collection “C1516 International Folk Traces of Hindustani Culture in and international awards. The govern‐ Music Film Festival-Nepal” held at BL. Malay Ghazal”. Putra University, ment marked his death with a state Malaysia, 2015 It is interesting to note that MMN was funeral and a week of national mourn‐ ✴ Sykes, Jim. “The Musical Gift: established in 1995 in the same month ing. His sonorous, instantly recogniza‐ Sound, Sovereignty, and Multicul‐

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tural History in Sri Lanka”. ✴ Field, Garrett. “Music for Inner Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, University of Chicago, USA, 2011 Domains: Sinhala Song and the Arya 2011

and Hela Schools of Cultural ✴ Kalinga Dona, Lasanthi Manaran‐ Publications Nationalism in Colonial Sri Lanka”. janie. “On the Therapeutic Aspects ✴ Alawathukotuwa M.S.B. “A Study of The Journal of Asian Studies 73 of Indian Classical Music”. In the Western Inﬂuence on Sri Lankan (4/2014): 1043–58 Musik-, Tanz- und Kunsttherapie Film Music.” Sambhãwanã 8 (2014): ✴ Field, Garrett. “Veiling the Modular: 1/12, edited by Karl Hörmann et al., 52-66 Literary Lan‐guage and Subjective 8-14. Münster: Hogrefe Verlag, 2012 ✴ Alawathukotuwa M.S.B. “Western Nationalism in Sinhala Radio Song of ✴ Kalinga Dona, Lasanthi Manaran‐ Music Education in Sri Lanka.” Sri Lanka, 1957–1964”. The South janie. “Merging of Cultural Beliefs, Sangeeth: Journal of the Eastern Asianist 4 (1/2015): 1–24 Music and Healing: Towards Medical Music Education 1 (2016): 40-67 ✴ Field, Garrett. “Modern Contours: Ethnomusicology in Sri Lanka”. In ✴ Dias, Ruwin R. and Gisa Jähnichen. Sinhala Poetry in Sri Lanka, 1913– Music in Society, edited by Jasmina “Creativity and Meaning in Rahul 1956.” South Asia: Journal of South Talam, 277-286. Sarajevo: Musicolo‐ Dev Burman’s Film Music: the Case Asian Studies 39 (2/2016): 368–385 gical Society of the FBiH and Aca‐ of Churaliya Hai Thumne”. Interna‐ ✴ Jähnichen, Gisa, Chinthaka P. demy of Music in Sarajevo, 2012 tional Journal of Humanities and Meddegoda, and Ruwin R. Dias. ✴ Kalinga Dona, Lasanthi Manaran‐ Social Sciences 4 (13/2014): 78-86 “Instrumental Sound in Music janie. Music and Healing Rituals of ✴ Dias, Ruwin R. “Music Relaxation Therapy”. Studia Instrumentorum Sri Lanka: Their Relevance for Com‐ for Music Teachers”. In UPM Book Musicae Popularis IV: 53-68. munity Music Therapy and Medical Series on Music Research: Music Münster: MV-Wissenschaft, 2015 Ethnomusicology. Colombo: S.

and Mind, edited by Gisa Jähnichen, ✴ Kalinga Dona, Lasanthi Manaran‐ Godage Publishers, 2013 Made Mantle Hood, and Chinthaka janie. “Community Music Therapy ✴ Kalinga Dona, Lasanthi Manaran‐ Meddegoda, 215-228. Putrajaya: in Action: Healing through Pirit janie. “Bali Healing Ritual in Sri Universiti Putra Malaysia, 2014 Chanting in Sri Lanka”. Journal of Lanka From a Medical Ethnomusico‐ ✴ Dias, Ruwin R. “A Musical Analysis Urban Culture Research 1 (2010): logy Perspective”. Muzikološki of Laxmikant and Pyarelal’s Hindi 148-156 zbornik - Musicological Annual 52 Film Song Satyam Shivam ✴ Kalinga Dona, Lasanthi Manaran‐ (2/2016): 121-136 Sundaram”. In UPM Book Series on janie. “Music as a Medium of Treat‐ ✴ Kalinga Dona, Lasanthi Manaran‐ Music Research: Music, Ethics and ment: A Case Study from Sri Lan‐ janie. Musical Images of Sri Lanka/ Community, edited by Gisa ka”. In Media and Diversity, edited Glasbene podobe Šrilanke. Performed Jähnichen, Made Mantle Hood, and by Tudor Weerasinghe et al., 44-53. by Ensemble Lasanthi, liner notes by Chinthaka Meddegoda, 73-90. Colombo: Department of Mass Svanibor Pettan and Lasanthi Putrajaya: Universiti Putra Media, Sri Palee Campus, University Manaranjanie Kalinga Dona. Malaysia, 2015 of Colombo, 2010 Ljubljana: Cultural and Ethnomusi‐ ✴ Field, Garrett. “Commonalities of ✴ Kalinga Dona, Lasanthi Manaran‐ cological Society Folk Slovenia. Creative Resistance: Regional Na‐ janie. “Music, Medicine and Culture: KDFS CD 005, 2016 tionalism in Rapiyel Tennakoon’s Ritual Healing Practices in Sri ✴ Mantillake, Sudesh. ‘Ves nätuma’: Bat Language and Sunil Santha’s Lanka”. Pax Sonoris 4-5 Sanjnãrthavedãthmaka Kiyaweemak Song for the Mother Tongue”. The (2010/2011): 70-75 [Ves Dance: A Semiotic Reading]. Sri Lanka Journal of the Humani‐ ✴ Kalinga Dona, Lasanthi Manaran‐ Colombo: Vishada, 2010 ties 38 (1/2, 2012): 1–24 janie. “Music Therapy: Sri Lankan ✴ Meddegoda, Chinthaka P. and ✴ Field, Garrett. “‘Handa Eliya’ (The Approaches”. In Methodology of Ruwin R. Dias. “Interaction of Musi‐ Moonlight): Mahagama Sekera’s Music Research Vol. 6. Approaches cians and Audience During Perfor‐ Experimental Prose”. Sagar: A South to Music Research: Between Practice mances of Hindustani Classical Asia Research Journal 21 (2013): and Epistemology, edited by Leon Music”. In UPM Book Series on 16–27 Stefanija and Nico Schuler, 229-236. Music Research: Music and Dance

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Environment, edited by Gisa came the bridge to cross ethnic, lan‐ University of Sri Jayawardenepura’s Jähnichen and Chinthaka guage, cultural, political, and social Department of Languages, Cultural Meddegoda, 83-94. Putrajaya: barriers”. Studies, and Performing Arts offers a Universiti Putra Malaysia, 2013 course on ethnomusicology within its The Sri Lankan-Slovenian ensemble Music and Cultural Studies special ✴ Suraweera, Sumuditha. “Baliphonics: “Lasanthi”, formed in Slovenia in 2013 (four‐year) degree programme. Adaptation of Sri Lankan, Low with the intention to promote diverse Country, Bali Ritual Music on to the Sri Lankan musical cultures, performed Conclusion Concert Stage”. In Traditional at various festival events in Austria The strengthening of the existing res‐ Knowledge and Traditional Cultural (5th aNother festival in Vienna, 2014; earch, teaching, and other activities by Expressions of South Asia, edited by MOYA international ball event in representatives of a new generation of Sanjay, 133-151. Colombo: SAARC Vienna, 2014); Croatia (50th Interna‐ scholars who earned their doctoral Cultural Centre, 2015 tional Folklore Festival in Zagreb, degrees abroad, the increasingly acces‐ ✴ Sykes, Jim. “Culture as Freedom: 2016); Russia (International Ethnogra‐ sible research grants, improved facil‐ Musical ‘Liberation’ in Batticaloa, phic Festival-Competition “Voices of ities, growing international communi‐ Sri Lanka”. Ethnomusicology 57 Golden Steppe” in Astrakhan, 2015); cations and cooperation with scholars (3/2013): 485-517 and Slovenia (41st International Folk‐ from other countries, who enrich know‐ lore Festival in Beltinci 2011; Nights in ledge and understanding of Sri Lankan Festivals the Old Ljubljana Town, 2011 and music with new views and methodolo‐ In 2009, the international Galle Music 2014; Godibodi Festival in Ljubljana, gies, and a new periodical publication Festival was established, followed in 2014; Mitnek festival in Črna, 2015; Sangeeth, started in 2016 by Nishad 2011 by its sister event Jaffna Music Jeff festival in Koper, 2016). Handunpathirana, suggest that the Festival. Between 2012 and 2016, the perspectives for Sri Lankan ethnomusi‐ festivals alternated with each other on Ethnomusicology Education cology look good. ICTM is undoubtedly a yearly basis, the latest one so far tak‐ The only department of ethnomusicolo‐ a positive force in this process, and the ing place in Galle in May 2016. As soon gy in Sri Lanka exists at the University natural consequence will be the appli‐ as the almost-three-decade-old civil war of the Visual and Performing Arts’ cation to the Executive Board for the came to an end in 2009, the Norwegian Faculty of Music in Colombo, along recognition of an ICTM National Com‐ government took initiative in introduc‐ with five other departments offering mittee for Sri Lanka. ing the festivals with the intention to four-year special degree programs. It encourage reconciliation and ethnic builds upon the visions of the late harmony to all involved, to connect pioneer of Sri Lankan ethnomusicology Southern Sri Lanka (Galle, with Sin‐ C. de S. Kulathillake and his widely halese majority) with the North of the recognized successor P.D. Ranjith island (Jaffna, with Tamil majority). Fernando. The University of Colombo’s The festivals are sponsored by the Department of Performing Arts at Sri Royal Norwegian Embassy, Sevalanka Palee Campus offers a course on ethno‐ Foundation, and Aru Sri Art Theatre, musicology within its own four‐year with Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corpora‐ special degree programme based on Sri tion being the principal media sponsor. Lankan and Indian musics. The festivals encourage local communi‐ The University of Peradeniya’s Depart‐ ties to present their own rural and ment of Fine Arts offers individual urban cultures (music, dance, theatre, courses in ethnomusicology, Sri Lankan rituals, crafts, costumes, and food), and traditional music, and more. The Uni‐ to share them with other local commu‐ versity of Kelaniya’s Department of nities and foreign performers, to learn Fine Arts offers a general degree (three from each other, to communicate their years) and a special degree (four years) feelings through the arts, and to build in performing arts with a focus on Sri interethnic harmony. In the words of Lankan and Indian traditions. The their founder Tom Gravlie, “Music be‐

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Sudan in the field of jazz and blues. At the end of the workshop all participants by Mohammed Adam played in the National Theatre, Sulaiman Abo-Albashar, attended by the dean of the college, the Liaison Officer faculty, the directors of the centres, and the general public. Alfatih Altaher Deyab, one of the most The College of Music and Drama held prominent Sudanese a training course for handicapped pioneer musicians, was honoured for his persons on 10 September 2016, his eightieth birthday on 3 June 2016 sponsored by the Handicap National in the Nation‐al Theater in Council, according to the social service Omdurman, Sudan’s capital. The event programme of Sudan University of was witnessed by musicians, different Science and Technology. Trainees were media outlets, and the public, and awarded certificates of attendance. various types of his compositions and arrangements were played by a choir and orchestra.

Deyab was born in June 1936 in Omdurman, where many Sudanese music cultures meet. He grew up in the diversity of Sudanese traditional music, which interested him in studying music. He graduated from the Lenin‐ grad Institute of Culture in 1981, and earned his PhD in Music Education in 1988 at the Moscow Conservatory. He is known as both a researcher and com‐ poser, featuring in his compositions traditional music and international forms. His research and books are important reference texts in Sudanese traditional music. Deyab is an active member of staﬀ of the College of Music and Drama, teaches at undergraduate levels and is the adviser of MA and PhD students. Despite being eighty years old, he still participates and contributes in all committees concerned with Sudanese traditional music and music arrangements. He has many contributions in conferences, seminars, and festivals in Sudan and abroad.

In collaboration with the Goethe Institute, the College of Music and Drama in Al Khartoum held a music workshop from 22 to 26 May 2016. The workshop featured styles and modern techniques in music trainings especially

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African Musics sity of London. The event was organiz‐ well as on the developments of African ed by the Study Group’s Vice Chair musical traditions when they are by Patricia Achieng Amanda Villepastour. We congratulate adapted to new cultural environments. Opondo, Study Group the UK Branch for a successful launch. We thank the authors and all who have Chair assisted in various stages of the project. [Editor’s note: see report on the event We anticipate that the book will be by Amanda Villepastour below] Symposium in 2018 completed ahead of the 2017 ICTM We are excited to Publication update World Conference in Limerick. We announce that the Music Department would like to thank and congratulate There is great progress with the Study of the University of Ghana, under the our Study Group’s Publications Group’s inaugural publication, which is headship of Joshua Amuah, will host Co-ordinator Elina Seye for keeping the largely comprised of selected papers the Study Group’s 2nd Symposium in project on schedule. from the 1st Study Group Symposium 2018. We extend our gratitude to held at the University of KwaZulu‐ Daniel Avorgbedor, ICTM Liaison Closing remarks Natal (Durban, South Africa) in 2015, Oﬃcer for Ghana, who will serve as the We encourage our members to forward in addition to some of the outstanding Chair of the Sympo‐sium’s Programme ideas to the Study Group’s Executive papers from earlier publication eﬀorts. Committee. We thank members of both Committee about ways by which we The book, titled Studies on African the Programme and Local can mark the Council’s seventieth Musical Heritage, is being co-edited by Arrangements Committees for early anniversary collectively as well as in Elina Seye and Patricia Opondo and preparations which will cer‐tainly our various regions. includes 17 chapters. The edited ensure the success of the event. volume will be published by Cambridge Launch of UK Branch Scholars Publishing and will present African Musics (UK current research on African Musical The UK Branch of the ICTM Study Branch) Heritage in both the continent and in Group on African Musics was launched the diaspora, focusing on particular by Amanda on 10 December 2016 at SOAS, Univer‐ musical traditions and instruments as Villepastour, Study Group Vice Chair

The UK branch of the ICTM Study Group for African Musics held its inaugural meeting at SOAS, University of London, on Saturday 10 December 2016. For this founding event, the interim committee (Peter Cooke, Zé Kouyaté, Sara McGuinness, Trevor Wiggins, and Amanda Villepastour, Chair) assembled a panel, straddling academic and performance domains, that led discussion about how this new Study Group Branch can ac‐ commodate the diverse aspirations and interests of musicians and researchers Panellists at the inaugural meeting of the UK Branch of the ICTM Study Group involved with African music (in its on African Musics (from left): Sara McGuinness (UK), US-based guest Bernard broadest understanding). Woma (Ghana), Amanda Villepastour (UK, Chair), Landing Mané (Senegal), Chartwell Dutiro (Zimbabwe), and Dele Sosimi (Nigeria). December 2016, London, UK. Photo provided by Amanda Villepastour.

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Around 40 people attended, ceremoni‐ Applied Ethnomusicology Before the symposium started, several ally opened with an mbira performance participants travelled around the island by Chartwell Dutiro. The shared by Anthony Seeger, Adriana Helbig, to give presentations in schools. On the themes included concerns about the Klisala Harrison, and Marcia first evening, we met at a pub where transmission and representation of Ostashewski Ostashewski’s “Global Musics – Local African music in the UK, the need to Connections” project was formally Below you will find a report of the 5th respect the cultural context of the mu‐ launched, after which participants’ per‐ Symposium of the ICTM Study Group sic and authority of African musicians, formances were broadcast live on a on Applied Ethnomusicology, held in and the need for firm partnerships local radio station. The following four was Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, on between scholars and musicians. days were filled with other demonstra‐ 6-9 October 2016. The report is divided tions of collaboration with local The Chair explained the relationship in three parts: Programme, Business community organizations, Cape Breton with and responsibility to ICTM and Meeting, and Local Arrangements. cultural events, and local musicians. the ICTM Study Group on African Musics, whose mission statement Programme The themes of the conference were (1) asserts ‘a particular emphasis on by Anthony Seeger Music, Labour, and Exchange, (2) Re‐ indigenous/traditional African musics search Methodology for the 21st Cen‐ The 5th meeting of the in sub-Saharan and diasporic Africa’. tury: Collaboration and Criticality, and ICTM Study Group on The UK contingent expressed interest (3) Intangible Cultural Heritage in Applied Ethnomusicolo‐ in studying both popular music and a Contemporary Societies. Patricia gy was both a sympo‐ wider geographical coverage, such as Campbell (USA) gave the first keynote sium focused around academic papers the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Islands, address, “Going Globally, Linking Lo‐ and a powerful demonstration of the Mediterranean, Caribbean, and Latin cally: Material, Method, and Culturally effectiveness of collaboration in applied and Lusophone America. There was Responsive Pedagogy”, which led off a ethnomusicology in the city of Sydney also a strong dance contingent who strong series of sessions and activities on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, collectively critiqued the cross‐disciplin‐ addressing music education. Naila Canada. Hosted by Marcia Ostashewski ary separation of movement and the Ceribašić (Croatia) gave the second and several community partners includ‐ body from the sonic aspects of music. keynote paper, “The Programme of ing the region’s public library, the sym‐ Scholars and artists both articulated Intangible Cultural Heritage and the posium included a wide variety of the need for music researchers and edu‐ Evolution of ‘Administrative’ Ethno‐ events. cators to resituate musical traditions musicology,” that addressed another within their spiritual contexts. The next steps agreed were: (1) facilitating ongoing communication via email and social networking; (2) assembling a committee through online voting and formalizing a membership and financial structure; and (3) moving forward with organizing a second meeting in London in early 2017 titled “Transmission” and a third meeting outside of London in 2017. Bernard Woma led the meeting to its conclusion with a performance that erupted into celebration.

Study Group members discuss during a roundtable focused on current develop‐ ments in applied ethnomusicology. October 2016, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. Photo provided by Klisala Harrison.

Bulletin of the ICTM Vol. 133 — January 2017 — Page 29 REPORTS important theme discussed in several conference. Collaboration was both a this is an avenue to pursue. The Study sessions. The paper sessions were wide‐ central theme and a central practice Group is currently exploring an online ranging and almost always in two throughout the event. The organizers journal option. parallel sessions due to a large number and all participants are to be congratu‐ Zhang Boyu has graciously offered to of participants and the requirements of lated. The symposium programme can host the next Study Group symposium local partners. be found at the Study Group’s website. at the Central Conservatory of Music To give an idea of the variety of Business meeting (CCOM) in Beijing, China, provisional‐ sessions, here is an incomplete list: ly in July 2018. Zhang introduced by Klisala Harrison and “Community Radio and Sharing and CCOM and described its financial Adriana Helbig Sustaining Local Musics and Cultures”, situation, its position in ethnomusicolo‐ “Nomadic Recording Studio and Parti‐ The 10th Study Group gical and musicological education, and cipatory Research Creation: Towards business meeting pro‐ what would be unique if the sympo‐ an Applied Ethnomusicology?”, “Critic‐ vided an opportunity sium were to be held at CCOM. The al Issues in Education and Pedagogy”, for conference attendees membership unanimously voted to ac‐ “Vitality and Sustainability of Music to discuss the past, pre‐ cept Beijing as the location of its 6th Traditions”, “Applying Ethnomusicolo‐ sent, and future work of Symposium. Themes were tentatively gy in Dramatic Demographic Change: the Study Group. The discussed, notably to further develop Immigrants and Cultural Diversity”, meeting was run by Vice Chair the Study Group’s work on intangible “Sustainability and Heritage Relation‐ Adriana Helbig. cultural heritage. ships”, “Music Festivals”, “Community Helbig began the meeting by introduc‐ Engagement”, “Collaborative Applied Local Arrangements ing the newly published COLLeGIUM Ethnomusicology Methods”, “Critical by Marcia Ostashewski journal issue of the Study Group, Issues in Education and Pedagogy”, “Applied Ethnomusicology in Institu‐ The symposium was “ICH and Institutional Practice”, and tional Policy and Practice”, edited by hosted by the new “Archiving and New Media”. Klisala Harrison. The volume features Centre for Sound On an evening outing to the multicul‐ quality articles from Study Group Communities at Cape tural Whitney Pier neighbourhood we members, some of whom were in atten‐ Breton University not only learned from residents about dance at the meeting. The volume em‐ (CBU). This new facility was establish‐ the history of the neighbourhood, ori‐ phasizes applied ethnomusicology’s ed as part of the programme of Canada ginally located next to one of the lar‐ engagement with government institu‐ Research Chair in Communities and gest steel mills in North America, but tions, universities, music conservato‐ Cultures in support of the kind of com‐ also of the efforts by the communities ries, learned societies, and the Chris‐ munity‐engaged research that typifies to survive after the closure of the mills. tian church. The contributions offer a the work of applied ethnomusicology Then we ate community food and wide range of case studies from around and its cognates. danced in a Ukrainian Hall. the world; they are peer-reviewed The symposium was made possible due articles developed from collaborations While this report has only singled out to funding from the Social Sciences and among Study Group members and from the keynote speakers, I can’t refrain Humanities Research Council of Cana‐ papers presented at the Study Group from mentioning Brazilian graduate da (SSHRC) Connections programme, Symposia in Hanoi, Vietnam (2010), student Pedro Mendonça, who played facilitated through partnerships with Nicosia, Cyprus (2012), and South and sang for us in the pub and at the offices at two universities and several Africa (2014). banquet (featuring indigenous Cape cross-sector stakeholders. It was one Breton food). His presentation about In addition, Rebecca Dirksen (Indiana component of a multi-faceted public collaborative research methods included University, USA) suggested that the engagement project that integrates three young community collaborators Study Group think about establishing a critical, creative approaches based on who presented their ideas and answered peer‐reviewed journal devoted to principles of social responsibility and questions via Skype from Rio de applied ethnomusicology. Among the use of ethnomusicological Janeiro—a level of collaborative presen‐ attendees there seemed to be unani‐ knowledge in influencing positive social tation most of us had never seen at a mous enthusiasm and agreement that

Bulletin of the ICTM Vol. 133 — January 2017 — Page 30 REPORTS interaction and (inter)cultural shops on diverse global music practices; Ethnochoreology (ex)change. and three community learning oppor‐ tunities at Celtic Colours International by Catherine Foley, The broader project, Global Musics – Festival. Study Group Chair Local Connections (Global Musics for short), comprises multiple outcomes in The symposium delegates greatly Report from the varied formats to engage a diversity of appreciated the opportunities to meet ICTM Sub-Study audiences. In addition to SSHRC fund‐ and engage with Cape Bretoners from Group on ing, Global Musics received support diverse communities and backgrounds from the Government of Nova Scotia’s through the public events and through Movement Analysis Communities, Culture and Heritage special conference-related activities The Sub-Study Group on Movement department; Fulbright Canada; and including a walking tour and dinner in Analysis had a meeting during the several offices at both CBU and the the Whitney Pier district, where nume‐ main Study Group’s 29th Symposium University of Alberta, including the rous immigrant groups have settled; in July 2016. The aim of the meeting Wirth Institute for Austrian and Cen‐ and a participatory dance lecture‐ was to inform and encourage activity in tral European Studies, folkwaysAlive! workshop with local Mi’kmaq culture‐ the group. Members of the Sub-Study and the Canadian Centre for Ethno‐ bearers. Group discussed issues connected to musicology. Cross-sector partners movement analysis, whatever analytical Inspired by the scholarship and presen‐ included Nova Scotia’s department of system is used, etc. Today the group tations, Nova Scotia’s education de‐ education, and local school boards; has two tracks: music‐dance relation‐ partment is in the process of purchas‐ Canada’s Coalition for Music Educa‐ ships and dynamics. As the Sub-Study ing Campbell’s (Teaching Music tion; Cape Breton’s public libraries; Group is quite large, there may Globally) and Schippers’s (Facing the Celtic Colours International Festival; eventually be other tracks. Music) books, one for each music class‐ the Beaton Institute and Archives; and room across the province. The success The meeting discussed the coordination Artscape, Ltd. of the project has also led to new re‐ of panel presentations in order to work The ICTM symposium coincided with search partnerships, facilitating a within smaller groups, which would be the public launch of Global Musics, longer term, sustained engagement managed through social media and and involved the concurrent delivery of with ethnomusicological methods and Skype. Members suggested that panels public and educational programming. knowledge. Research is being carried are more effective and feasible after a In Cape Breton, immediately around out, resources are being developed, and Sub-Study Group meeting. The Secre‐ the time of the symposium, delegates programming (including a film festival tary of the Sub‐Study Group encourag‐ were involved in workshops and dia‐ and workshops) continues to be deliver‐ ed panel presentations for the 44th logue events in Sydney’s public library, ed through Global Musics—extending ICTM World Conference in Limerick in as well as a community centre home of across Canada the impact of the ICTM 2017, and for the 30th Symposium of Cape Bretoners of Croatian ancestry; a symposium, and the tremendous public the Study Group on Ethnochoreology CBU Library lecture-demonstration engagement of our colleagues. in Hungary in 2018. highlighting a new collection of music Further Sub-Study-Group meetings will monographs focusing on the Middle occur in the Spring of 2017 and the East, and the urgency of learning about Autumn of 2018. In February 2017 a this region’s culture and history; a few colleagues will meet in Graz CBC radio programme on applied (Austria), Trondheim (Norway), and ethnomusicologies, featuring Naila others. This will consist of a two-day Ceribašić, Anne Rasmussen, and motion‐capture workshop with one Patricia Campbell; a Global Musics theoretical day and one day in the lab Teacher Professional Development where colleagues will exchange insights, Day, with a keynote by Campbell and problems, and approaches between workshops by Huib Schippers and groups that use motion capture for Rasmussen; a Youth4Music youth dance research. leadership seminar; ten in-school work‐

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If you are interested in issues related to Festivities, and (3) Dance in Urban The original idea was that the Society analysing dance that you want to Settings. would hold its meetings biennially, but discuss with others, please contact the when the Study Group announced that Secretary of the Sub-Study Group of Iconography of the its 14th Symposium would be held at Movement Analysis, Siri Mæland. the Conservatory of Music in Xi’an, the Performing Arts Society approached us with a proposal Report of the ICTM Sub-Study by Zdravko Blažeković, for a joint conference. This decision Group on Field Research Study Group Chair accelerated the frequency of their Theory and Methods conferences, and from now on they will Four years ago the At the 29th Symposium of the ICTM hold them annually, already announc‐ ICTM Study Group on Study Group on Ethnochoreology in ing conferences in Putian, Fujian Iconography of the Performing Arts Graz, Austria, a new book was (2017), and Yibin, Sichuan (2018). This held its first symposium in China, presented by Selena Rakočevič and Liz is a nice example of how an ICTM organized by the China Conservatory Mellish as a result of a fieldwork trip Study Group influenced the emergence of Music in Beijing. This was the first organized to Sviniţa, Serbia in 2013. of a new direction of music scholarship conference on music iconography ever in China, where music iconography Since 2016, members of the Sub-Study held in China, and the response to it used to be subsumed under the wings Group on Field Research have discus‐ was quite impressive, bringing to of music archaeology, which developed sed the next task of the group. and Beijing a good number of both Chinese there earlier because archaeological have decided to undertake joint field‐ and international scholars. excavations provided since the 1950s work bringing together different view‐ That symposium planted the seeds for exceptionally rich discoveries of points to fieldwork research. Members the establishment of China’s Society for instruments and other sources. It feels will combine field research undertaken Music Iconology, which had its first at this point that we have accomplish‐ individually or in groups on similar meeting in 2013 at the Conservatory of ed our mission in China, and can set an topics and then meet to share experien‐ Music of the Normal University in agenda now for a new round of efforts ces and explore common threads in the Hangzhou, and then a second one in in a different geographic region. fieldwork. The fieldwork will be under‐ 2015 at the School of Art and Design of taken along three main tracks with the The theme of the Xi’an conference, the China University of Mining and aim to keep continuity: (1) Intangible held on 27–31 October 2016, was Technology in Xuzhou. Cultural Heritage, (2) Festival and “Images of Music-Making and Its Trans-Cultural Exchanges”. Fifty presentations were planned for the programme, but as it happens in China, a number of participants did not arrive without taking the trouble to cancel their participation ahead of time. Still, the programme was comprehensive, with papers touching music-related visual representations in a variety of specifically Chinese media, such as stone carvings from the Han dynasty, funerary jars from the Han and Jin dynasties, ancient coins, wall paintings in Buddhist temples in Dunhuang, Guangxi, and Hebei, and even decorative labels on matchboxes. Many of us learned a new word, Participants of the 14th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Iconography of “phillumeny”, that designates the the Performing Arts. October 2016, Xi’an, China. Photo provided by Zdravko hobby of collecting matchboxes, Blažeković. matchbooks, and other kinds of match

Bulletin of the ICTM Vol. 133 — January 2017 — Page 32 REPORTS covers. Apparently there are some Music and Dance in the preparation of the proceedings of twenty thousand phillumenists in this meeting, and discussed possible China, specializing in certain Southeastern Europe locations and dates for the next Study iconographic genres represented on by Gergana Rayzhekova Group meeting in 2018. Reports were matchbox labels, including music. The and Vesna Karin made on the activities of two Sub‐ symposium was attended by a dozen of Study Groups on Military Connections scholars from Europe and North The 5th Symposium of and Čoček & Çiftetelli. Elections were America, bringing to the mix research the ICTM Study Group held for the position of Chair and Vice on Western paintings, sources from on Music and Dance in Chair and Velika Stoykova Classical antiquity, and transmission of Southeastern Europe Serafimovska and Öcal Özbilgin were music culture along the Silk Road. was organized by the re-elected to these positions. ICTM National Conferences held outside of Europe and Committee for Bulgaria Gergana Rayzhekova and Vesna Karin North America are always rewarding, and the Faculty of Arts address below the events of this as their programmes include a variety of the South-West intensive and fruitful meeting. They of topics, research methods, and media University (SWU) “Neofit Rilski”, held are two young Study Group members we might not be immediately familiar from 2 to 8 May 2016 at the University who were invited by the Programme with, and it is critically important that Centre “Bachinovo” in Blagoevgrad, Committee to reflect after the closing we provide continuous opportunities for Bulgaria. of the symposium. meetings on different continents. However, it is unfortunately still true The local organization committee, led Reflections by Gergana that conferences held in Europe and by Ivanka Vlaeva, Ventsislav Dimov, Rayzhekova North America are unaffordable for the and Lozanka Peycheva, truly contribu‐ The working sessions of the symposium majority of our colleagues from Asia or ted to making this a colourful and were introduced and concluded by mas‐ Latin America. The Study Group is dynamic meeting both in working querade games presented by Lozanka planning to have its next meeting in sessions and accompanying events. The Peycheva Anna Maria Bólya, drawing Barcelona in 2018, but hopefully we programme committee (Carol a circle like in Bulgarian embroidery, can organize also another Asian Silverman, Iva Niemčić, Belma where a special theme is woven meeting sooner rather than later. If any Kurtişoğlu, Ventsislav Dimov, Ardian throughout, a theme that permeates institution in Asia would be interested Ahmedaja, and Selena Rakočević, myths, stories, rituals, subverts and in hosting a symposium, it may Chair) arranged the papers into 15 inverts views, supporting other rituals approach the Study Group’s Chair with sessions including two panels. In total, to coexist. The embroidery was present a plan for the event. 39 papers were presented. These were on all printed materials to be our guide centred around three main themes: (1) at the symposium and to bind us The Xi’an conference was superbly Music and Dance in Southeastern together. The ICTM embroidery can be organized by the Northwestern Folk Europe in Post-1989 (14 presentations); expressed by playing on words mixing Music Research Centre of the Xi’an (2) Representations of Music and English and Bulgarian: I See Ti (and) Conservatory of Music, with assistance Dance in Audiovisual Ethnographies in Me, which literary means in English “I of the Research Institute of Music at Southeastern Europe (9 presentations); See You and Me”. the Chinese Academy of Arts. I am and (3) Interpretations of Music and tremendously grateful to our colleagues Dance in Myth and Ritual in the Music The opening Li Cun and Yang Tingting for their and Dance of Southeastern Europe (16 The ceremony began with official ad‐ efforts in hosting us in Xi’an. presentations). dresses from the Rector and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts of SWU “Neofit The business meeting of the Study Rilski”, followed by greetings from the Group was held on 5 May during which Study Group Chair and the Chair of the book with proceedings of the 4th the ICTM National Committee for Symposium (edited by Liz Mellish, Bulgaria, and a concert of traditional Nick Green, and Mirjana Zakić) was Bulgarian music under the supervision promoted. The organizers set plans for

Bulletin of the ICTM Vol. 133 — January 2017 — Page 33 REPORTS of the master folklore singer Binka Macedonian Muslim Romani families in observer always changes the equation. Dobreva. New York City; and Daniela Nyberg’s The question is, where you draw the explorations on speciﬁc body line? The symposium behaviour. Throughout the six days of the Sympo‐ Presentations in the theme “Interpreta‐ sium there were 39 presentations divid‐ The theme “Representations of Music tions of Music and Dance in Myth and ed in panels. The conference moved in and Dance in Audiovisual Ethnogra‐ Ritual in the Music and Dance of dichotomies: science and party, phies in Southeastern Europe” raised Southeastern Europe” were heteroge‐ presenters and audience, food for questions, such as Öcal Özbilgin’s neous and raised many questions: the thought and food for the body, sitting deliberation as to whether we need rituals and the people performing them and walking, and what was happening methods to record or not record music circle in a spiral in and out of the on the symposium stage and what was and dance performances, and to know public, in and out of money, swaying to happening at the parties. when to switch the camera with our and fro, from modern to forgotten own faces or feet, respectively. We, as practices, and it is the eye of the Behind the scenes and beyond the eye of the camera, have the ethnomusicologist whose responsibility The context of social dancing/dancing responsibility to remove fruitless is to always catch these shifts, although in social contexts within the theme meanings that have grown as the moss acting in a silent mode. As Velika “Music and Dance in Southeastern of misunderstandings or too convenient Stojkova Seraﬁmovska pointed out the Europe in Post-1989” was presented by truths. The layers are removed by rituals are living organisms growing, 15 scholars. Among them a few should interviews and observations. Another getting older, never getting younger, be singled out: Elsie Ivanchich Dunin’s challenge is overcoming the limits of being trimmed and cut, neglected, overview of the Ederlezi celebration of our perception. The problems that commercialized, buried, resurrected, the Romani population in Skopje; ethnomusicology faces are, as Nick made into exclusive or inclusive Carol Silverman’s overview of the Green and I would argue, the paradox practices. religious and the not-so-religious of the observer or that the eye of the

Participants of the 5th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe. May 2016, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. Photo provided by Velika Stojkova Seraﬁmovska.

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The night of Bulgarian Two panels devoted to (1) Compara‐ logists Olivera Vasić and Anca Ethnomusicology tive studies of contemporary ritual Giurchescu, who sadly passed away in The night of Bulgarian Ethnomusicolo‐ practices in Macedonia and Croatia, 2015. gy was a tribute to the first Bulgarian and (2) Issues of audiovisual recording ethnomusicologist, Raina Katsarova, in ethnochoreology and ethnomusicolo‐ Musical Instruments who devoted her life to gathering the gy gathered nine scholars from different ungatherable Bulgarian folklore her‐ countries and provoked wonderful by Gisa Jähnichen, itage throughout the country. In her discussions, along will all other Study Group Chair son’s eyes we saw the pride of a job presentations. The members of the well done. The tribute of the kaval Accompanying events player Tsviatko Blagoev was another ICTM Study Group on During the symposium a large number Musical Instruments recently elected diamond which came to light. A ques‐ of accompanying events were organiz‐ tion was raised by his children, who Gisa Jähnichen as Chair, Rastko ed, rich in music, singing, and dancing. asked all delegates to promote the Jakovljevic as Vice Chair, and Every evening had a different knowledge gathered during the confer‐ Chinthaka P. Meddegoda as Secretary. programme. Participants were offered a ence to a wider audience, to teach the Since the election results were very great opportunity to learn Bulgarian close, the two other candidates, Rinko audience how hard scientists and traditional singing with singer Binka ethnomusicologists work (and party). Fujita and Margita Matuskova were Dobreva after the opening ceremony, appointed as membership manager and Choices must be made. The knowledge and dances from south-west Bulgaria website editor, respectively. has been recorded for reference, emo‐ with Nikolai Tzvetkov and Georgi Many thanks to the ICTM Secretariat tion, and for any resurrection of a Garov during the second evening. For for their assistance in organizing the tradition to be able to happen. It is a those participants who did not have election, and to all active Study Group constantly changing direction that is a previous experience with Bulgarian members for voting. curve, not a straight line. One choice is traditional dance, this dance workshop certainly made: to continue with the was an amazing and physically research, fieldwork, ask people, demanding experience! During the Musics of the Slavic interview, record, dance, dance, dance third evening various performing styles World sing sing, sing, write, write, write. from different regions of Bulgaria were presented at the concert dedicated to by Elena Shishkina, Thankfully there are problems still to the 40th anniversary of the South-West Study Group Chair, and be solved. University “Neofit Rilski”, moderated Rimantas Sliužinskas, Let the ritual, camera and pen be with by Georgi Garov. Study Group Vice Chair you. The half-day excursion to the Rila The 1st Symposium of Reflections by Vesna Karin Monastery on 6 May provided an the ICTM Study Group on Musics of unique opportunity for all participants the Slavic World was Presentations to socialize and talk, but also to get held in Ljubljana from Many papers at the symposium were acquainted with this beautiful and sig‐ 13 to 15 October 2016. well‐structured, and a few were very nificant cultural, historical, and archi‐ More than 30 scholars inspirational, such as the presentation tectural monument from the tenth from Austria, Bosnia by Elsie Ivancich Dunin about the century. The 5th Symposium of the and Herzegovina, Croa‐ Romani celebration of St. George’s ICTM Study Group on Music and tia, Czech Republic, day/Ederlezi in Skopje, Timothy Rice’s Dance in Southeastern Europe has France, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, paper about film as a medium for con‐ special significance for the Study Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, veying theory in ethnomusicology, and Group’s history, not only because it Switzerland, Ukraine, and the USA Sonja Zdravkova Djeparoska’s presen‐ reached its first jubilee anniversary, attended the event. tation about high school graduation but also because of the sad absence of The symposium was opened with quadrille as a new modern dance ritual. two important and regular members welcome speeches by Svanibor Pettan, since its foundation, the ethnochoreo‐

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Secretary General of ICTM, Elena (Bożena Muszkalska, Olga Pashina, sioned internet database project for its Shishkina, Study Group Chair, Elena Shishkina). Some focused their practitioners (Sliužinskas). Rimantas Sliužinskas, Study Group presentations on national and wider The Business Meeting, chaired by Vice Chair, and members of the Local Slavic identity issues and to musical Shishkina, featured discussion about Arrangements Committee Drago Kunej expressions that manifest these trends the perspectives of the Study Group. and Mojca Kovačič. (Linda Cimardi, Marija Klobčar, Drago Preliminary invitations for hosting the Kunej, Halyna Pshenichkina, Sonja The presentations were organized into 2nd Symposium in 2018 came from Zdravkova‐Djeparoska). Several pre‐ four thematic units: (1) Anthropology members from Macedonia and Ukraine. senters spoke on specific methodological of music and musical folkloristics in the issues (Igor Macijewski, Anastasia A reception at the Forum of Slavic Slavic world; (2) Perspectives and Mazurenko, Ulrich Morgenstern, Anna Cultures in Ljubljana featured the methods of comparative and historical Pelina, Jana Ambrózová, Jakša performance of Slovenian vocal group research of vocal and instrumental Primorac, Galina Tavlai, Amra Toska). “Cintare” and a concert of Slovenian genres of traditional music in the Slavic In concordance with the third theme of traditional music in the Atrium of the world; (3) Selections, presentations, the Symposium, a large group of papers Slovenian Academy of Science and and transformations of traditional was devoted to transformations of tra‐ Arts, in honour of the 80th birthday of music practices in post-socialist ditional music and performance practic‐ ethnomusicologist Julijan Strajnar, Europe; and (4) Recent research. es under the influence of social and po‐ featured a variety of performers of In his opening presentation, Pettan litical changes (Mojca Kovačič, Rebeka Slovenian traditional music. Last but mentioned that the main aim of the Kunej, Velika Stojkova Serafimovska, not least, a boat excursion on the river Study Group is to encourage and Matěj Kratochvíl, Urša Šivic, Olga Ljubljanica provided participants with provide the study of musics focusing on Velitchkina, Sanja Ranković, Rimantas a good opportunity for more informal Slavic countries and peoples, paying Sliužinskas). One presentation featured conversations. attention not exclusively to Slavic the documentary film Zakarpattia, in All participants expressed thanks to musics, but also to interactions which Shaun Williams presented his the Institute of Ethnomusicology ZRC between Slavic and non-Slavic tradi‐ ethnographic research with wedding SAZU and to other institutions that tions. Some of the gathered scholars musicians. contributed to the Local Arrangements turned their attention to the history of Special presentations were devoted to Committee, and to the Programme national Slavic schools of ethnomusico‐ terminological problems that affect eth‐ Committee, for a the very successful logy and to the scholarly legacies of nomusicology in the Slavic-speaking 1st Symposium of this Study Group. their prominent representatives world (Morgenstern) and to an envi‐

Participants of the 1st Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Musics of the Slavic World. October 2016, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Photo provided by Elena Shishkina.

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24th ICTM Colloquium colloquium was an attempt to widen followed by Alexander Djumaev’s the horizon and to open up and cross paper, titled “Plucked Lutes in Central “Plucked Lutes of the Silk borders of geography, musical systems, Asia: From Iconographic Images and Road” time periods, organology, and gender Written Descriptions to Music issues by bringing together experts of Practices”. He pointed out that a lack by Xiao Mei (萧梅), all these fields. of sources can be often compensated by Co-Chair of Local detailed observations of performance The panel on Instrument Making and Arrangements practices. Committee Ecologies started with Jennifer Post’s valuable contribution based on her The panel on Historical Studies, the The 24th ICTM long-term fieldwork in regions along the first of the second day, gathered M. Colloquium “Plucked Lutes of the Silk Silk Road. Her presentation Emin Soydaş, Wen He, and Zhang Road: The Interaction of Theory and “Tonewood, Skin, and Bone: Lutes and Xiaodong with highly interesting Practice” was held from 20 to 23 Local Ecologies Along Asian Trading findings on the historical connections October 2016, at the Shanghai Routes” approached the topic in a among repertoires and traces of Conservatory of Music, a central holistic way through regional ecologies, plucked lutes along the Silk Road. institution for the development of social productivity, and art objects. Soydaş reported on “Historical Facts, ethnomusicological research in China, Razia Sultanova continued exemplary Recent Myths, Current Connections: and the site of the 42nd ICTM World with her fieldwork-based study “The The Case of the Ancient Turkish Conference. The president of ICTM, Dutar in Central Asian Traditional Kopuz”, Wen He on “Notated Music Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco, Culture: Substance, Image, and From the Tang Court Written for a together with representatives of the Sound”. Another paper belonging to Historical Plucked Lute of the Silk Shanghai Conservatory of Music this panel, titled “The Basis of Road”, and Zhang Xiaodong on delivered opening remarks and spoke in Creation for the Sound System of the “Ruanxian Research on the Silk Road”. a straightforward way about the main Tanbour”, was given by Abduvali These three papers offered a number of purpose of the colloquium. Abdurashidov as the first paper of the new insights, each calling for further In order to cover the diversity of sub‐ third day due to his complicated flight detailed studies in this field. schedule. He showed in a very practical topics, the colloquium was divided into Another panel of the second day about manner the connection of instrument several panels such as Instrument Theory, Aesthetics, and Performance features, musical systems, and the Making and Ecologies; Intra-cultural Practice could approach the topic in a development of a specific cultural Variation and Distribution; Historical very practical way from the perspective repertoire in one region. Studies; Theory, Aesthetics, and of recent musicians, music educators, Performance Practice; Lutes in The second panel on Intra-Cultural and composers. Scott Markus spoke Diasporic Contexts; Lutes across Variation and Distribution was opened about “Adding a New Layer to the Borders; and a roundtable on by a research team chaired by Xiao Documentation of Eastern Arab Modal Confluences and Contrasts in the Mei and consisting of herself, Kong Practice: Using Tetrachordal Theory to Performance Practices, Aesthetics, and Chongjing, and Zhang Zhenrui. This Document Present-Day Practice across Contexts for Plucked Lutes of the Silk presentation contributed with rich Maqām Families”. A. J. Racy Road. The sub-topics partly reflect information about a long-ignored demonstrated the “The Arab Buzuq: previous research approaches, such as subject, “Shaanbei Shuoshu (Pipa The Long-Necked Lute Fretting the scholarly division into organological Storytelling of Shaanbei) from the vis-à-vis the Indigenous Tonal issues and regional history, the focus on Perspective of Inner Asia”. The Grammar”, and Munir Beken analysed intra‐national developments and the research team considered cross-border his “Concerto for Turkish Ud and rather technical study of musical perspectives as well as social geography Orchestra” from more than the primary systems and performance practice. This as a point of further discussion. It was musical aspect.

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Participants of the 24th ICTM Colloquium. Photo provided by Xiao Mei.

The third panel of the second day “Migrating Lutes: Silky Strings and music cultures and their changes along about Lutes in Diasporic Contexts Gendered Ideologies“ was followed by the Silk Road. Everybody contributed dealt with actual issues among diaspo‐ Haruko Komoda who extended this to the discussion and agreed upon ric communities that live apart from topic further to the east in her paper continuing the practice of focused the Silk Road societies. John Morgan “Transmission and Transformation of academic colloquia within ICTM and O’Connell focused on a specific German the Pipa in China, Korea, and Japan”. among local scholars, musicians, and context and spoke about “Saz as Another highly interesting contribution educators. Symbol: A Turkish Lute and an Alevi was delivered by Richard K. Wolf in The panels and discussions were enrich‐ Aşık in a German City”, while Anne his paper “Wakhi Religious Music ed by three evening concerts: “The Rasmussen took the music practice to Across the Tajik-Afghan Border” and Travel of Pipa with Wu Man–In another level of academic research with by Katherine E. Freeze who spoke Conversation With World Plucked her paper on “Taking Our Show on the about “The Ko-phongs, a Plucked Lute String Instruments: Folk Musics of (Silk) Road: The W&M MEME tours on the Silk Road from Central Asia to China, America, and Eastern Africa”, Morocco and Oman”. India and Tibet”. Freeze concluded the “Plucked Lutes of the Arabic World”, panel with an impressive lecture Two panels were dedicated to “Lutes and “Plucked Lutes’ Journey to the demonstration. Across Borders” on the third day. As East”. Scholars and invited experienced the Silk Road crosses borders in many The afternoon of the third day started musicians contributed to the concerts ways, this sub-topic offered a wider with the final roundtable on Confluenc‐ and to the horizon of thoughts that view on different subjects with shifts in es and Contrasts in the Performance made this colloquium a unique event. perspectives. Gisa Jähnichen gave a Practices, Aesthetics, and Contexts for More detailed workshops held by general overview of cross-bar lutes of Plucked Lutes of the Silk Road. J. scholars and an excursion to the most the ‘ud and pipa type, their develop‐ Lawrence Witzleben, Svanibor Pettan, important factory of Chinese ment, the migration of instruments Tan Sooi Beng, and Zhao Weiping gave instruments in Shanghai added to the with their musicians and ideologies, as summarizing statements and inspired rich experience that every participant well as subsequent gender constructions the participants with their list of ques‐ took home to further encourage other and re-constructions. Her presentation tions regarding future research about researchers and students.

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★ 13-15 Mar 2017: ICTM-IAML-IMS Forum Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE

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★ 24-27 Aug 2017: 15th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music Archaeology & Workshop of the European Music Archaeology Project (EMAP) Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia

★ 21-28 Jul 2018: 30th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology Location: Budapest, Hungary

★ 9-12 Aug 2018: 2nd Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on African Musics Location: Legon, Ghana

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Bulletin of the ICTM Vol. 133 — January 2017 — Page 40 PUBLICATIONS Featured Publications by ICTM Members A Nest of Gold / Μια Dance, Field Research, Flowing Tides: History Φωλιά αό Χρυσάφι and Intercultural and Memory in an Irish Yvonne Hunt. Thessaloniki: Centre for Perspectives The Easter Soundscape the Study of Traditional Dance Customs in the village of Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin. New York/ “Kyklos”, 2015. Hardcover, 493 pp., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. colour photos, CD, DVD. In English Sviniţa Hard copy, E-book, companion website, and Greek. ISBN 9786188170209. 30 Selena Rakočević and Liz Mellish, eds. 344 pp, photos, maps, trans. ISBN EUR. To purchase, contact the Pančevo: Kulturni Centar Pančeva & 9780199380084. 45 USD. Purchase. publisher. Selena Rakočević, 2015. Paperback, 151 Despite its isolation The Serres region of pp. ISBN 9788691826116. 15 EUR. To on the western edge eastern Macedonia in purchase, contact Liz Mellish. of Europe, Ireland Greece is rich with This publication is occupies vast music, dance, song, the result of fieldwork amounts of space on and traditions, many by the Ethnochoreo‐ the music maps of of which have been logy Sub-Study the world. Deeply lost but many of Group on Field rooted in time and which are still retained. This work is Research Theory and place, yet viscous and nomadic, Irish the result of more than 30 years of Methods about songs, dances, and instrumental research in the villages of the region. Easter customs and hora de pomana in traditions have a history of global This book is an attempt to document the village of Sviniţa, Romania, in May travel that spans the centuries. much of the information which 2013. The volume is dedicated to Anca Working from a palette of disciplines— combines observations, interviews, and Giurchescu as this was her last field cultural history, ethnomusicology, scholastic studies. trip. The papers include a significant memory studies, media ecology—and a The recordings on the accompanying article by Giurchescu in which she range of eyewitness accounts, Internet CD and DVD enable one to experience summarizes her decades of experience sociologies, and multilingual a small part of the richness and and knowledge of Romanian village ethnographies, this book is a narrative diversity of this area, which the dances. of an Irish soundscape undergoing Ottomans referred to as a nest of gold radical change in the period from the for its agricultural value, and which is Napoleonic Wars to the Great Famine, also such for its cultural value. from the birth of the nation state to the meteoric rise—and fall—of Ireland’s cultural economy amid the utopian folly of the Celtic Tiger boom.

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Hindustani Traces in Mesoamerican slit-drum (Mark Sound, Ritual and Howell), the ancient Chinese qin zither Malay Ghazal: “A song so (Bo Lawergren), the nineteenth-century Medicine: Culture and old and yet still famous” representations of Chinese huqin (Colin Activities of Javanese Huehns), pipe organs in the Jewish Folk Healing Chinthaka P Meddegoda and Gisa culture (Joachim Braun), instruments Jähnichen. Cambridge: Cambridge represented in the Luttrell Psalter Tsai Tsung-Te. Taipei: Yulan Culture, Scholars Publishing, 2016. Hardback, (Rosina Buckland), classification of 2015. Paperback, 298 pp. IBSN 420 pp. ISBN 9781443897594. 63.99 Renaissance plucked instruments 9789868976955. In Chinese GBP. Purchase. (Mariagrazia Carlone), and effeminate (Traditional). NT$ 380. Purchase. “A song, so old and professional musicians in Ottoman This is the first yet still famous” is a Empire (Dorit Klebe), among others. ethnomusicological As these articles demonstrate a broad Malay expression of work in Chinese admiration for an spectrum of methodological approaches, language (⾳聲、儀式 exotic singing style, a the book is used as a textbook across 與醫療：印尼⽖哇療 musical contempla‐ Chinese institutions of advanced music 癒⽂化與活動) that tion on the beauty of learning. considers the role of nature, God, and love. The ghazal music in the folk healing tradition of exists in manifold cultures all over Muzikološki zbornik/ Java. The book uses Javanese Islamic Asia, Africa, and Southern Europe, and Musicological Annual and Shamanistic practices as a lens to is intimately connected to Islam and its consider the interconnections between periphery. In the Malay world, ghazals 52/2: Music, Sound and various forms of medical rites, sound, come in various shapes and with Ecology and artistic expressions. It seeks to different meanings. Malay ghazals are demonstrate the dissemination of still attractive and musically Svanibor Pettan, ed. Ljubljana: culture and healing systems, religion demanding. They were traditionally Ljubljana University Press, 2016. and medical thoughts, as well as the not performed for mass appeal, but, Paperback, 194 pp., photos. ISSN use of sound and music in the healing rather, for a small knowledgeable 0580-373X. 10 EUR. Purchase. tradition of Java. audience that valued musical This issue celebrates refinement and taste. the 70th anniversary Traditional Dances of the of ICTM and the Music in art / 艺术中的⾳乐 20th anniversary of Serbs in Banat: An the Cultural and Anthology

Zdravko Blažeković, 洛秦 Luo Qin, 李 Ethnomusicological 枚 Li Mei, eds. Shanghai: Shanghai Society Folk Slovenia, Selena Rakočević. Belgrade: CIOTIS, Conservatory of Music Press, 2014. 546 both located at the University of 2014. DVD. In English and Serbian. 10 pp. ISBN 9787806929780. To purchase, Ljubljana. Ten peer-reviewed articles EUR. To purchase, contact the author. contact the editor. that emerged from papers presented at This publication is a This volume is a the symposium “Music and Ecology” multimedia DVD collection of 26 (Ljubljana, 2015) reﬂect a growing with 30 ethnochoreo‐ articles translated interest in sound in the context of logical ﬁeld‐research into Chinese which interactions between humans and their video clips of the originally appeared local and global environments. The traditional dances of between 2002 and authors deal with topics such as sonic the Serbs in Banat, covering a period 2007 in the journal ecology, religious and nostalgic from 1988 to 2014. Music in Art. The included articles soundscapes, sound art, sound therapy, discuss a variety of Western and Asian and more. topics, including the origin of the

Bulletin of the ICTM Vol. 133 — January 2017 — Page 42 GENERAL INFORMATION ICTM World Network

The ICTM World Network is composed of individuals, called Liaison Oﬃcers, and representatives of organisations, called National and Regional Committees. They all act as links between the Council and the community of individuals and organizations involved with traditional music and dance in their country or region.

As of January 2017, the International Council for Traditional Music is oﬃcially represented in 127 countries and regions.

Afghanistan Azerbaijan Cameroon Cyprus Ahmad Naser Sanubar Bagirova, Kisito Essele, Liaison Nefen Michaelides, Sarmast, Liaison Officer Liaison Officer Officer Liaison Officer

Albania Bangladesh Canada Czech Ardian Ahmedaja, Sayeem Rana, Liaison Judith Klassen, Chair Republic Liaison Officer Officer of National Committee Zuzana Jurková, Liaison Officer Algeria Belarus Cape Verde Maya Saidani, Liaison Galina Tavlai, Mário Lúcio de Denmark Officer Liaison Officer Sousa, Liaison Officer Eva Fock, Chair of National Committee American Belgium Chile Samoa Anne Caufriez, Jacob Rekedal, Ecuador Kuki Motumotu Tuiasosopo, Liaison Officer Liaison Officer María Gabriela López Liaison Officer Yánez, Liaison Officer Bhutan China Angola Kheng Sonam Dorji, Xiao Mei, Chair of Egypt Jomo Francisco Isabel Liaison Officer National Committee Kristina Nelson, de Carvalho, Liaison Officer Liaison Officer Bosnia and Colombia Argentina Herzegovina Ana María Ochoa, Estonia Silvia Citro, Liaison Jasmina Talam, Chair of Liaison Officer Žanna Pärtlas, Officer National Committee Liaison Officer Costa Rica Armenia Botswana Susan Campos Ethiopia Tatevik Shakhkulyan, Tomeletso Sereetsi, Fonseca, Liaison Officer Timkehet Teffera, Liaison Officer Liaison Officer Liaison Officer Côte d’Ivoire Australia & Brazil Sié Hien, Liaison Finland New Zealand Deise Lucy Officer Antti-Ville Kärjä, Catherine Grant, Montardo, Chair of National Chair of National Committee Chair of Regional Committee Croatia Committee Tvrtko Zebec, Chair France Bulgaria of National Committee Susanne Fürniss, Austria Lozanka Peycheva, Chair of National Committee Cuba Bernd Brabec de Chair of National Committee Mori, Chair of National Laura Delia Vilar Georgia Committee Cambodia Álvarez, Liaison Officer Joseph Jordania, Song Seng, Liaison Liaison Officer Officer

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Germany Ireland Macedonia Mozambique Dorit Klebe, Chair of Lonán Ó Briain, (FYROM) Luka Mukhavele, National Committee Chair of National Committee Velika Stojkova Liaison Officer Serafimovska, Chair of Ghana Israel National Committee Myanmar Daniel Avorgbedor, Essica Marks, Liaison Ne Myo Aung, Liaison Officer Officer Madagascar Liaison Office Mireille Greece Italy Rakotomalala, Liaison Officer Nepal Irene Loutzaki, Serena Facci, Chair Ram Prasad Kadel, Liaison Officer of National Committee Malawi Liaison Officer Robert Chanunkha, Guam & Japan Liaison Officer The Northern Tsukahara Yasuko, Netherlands Marianas Chair of National Committee Malaysia Evert Bisschop Boele, Liaison Michael Clement, Tan Sooi-Beng, Officer Kazakhstan Liaison Officer Liaison Officer Saule Utegalieva, Nicaragua Guatemala Liaison Officer Malta Johannes Kranz, Matthias Stöckli, Philip Ciantar, Liaison Officer Liaison Officer Kenya Liaison Officer Charles Nyakiti Nigeria Haiti Orawo, Liaison Officer Mexico Austin 'Maro Emielu, Gerdès Fleurant, Carlos Ruiz Liaison Officer Republic of Liaison Officer Rodriguez, Liaison Officer Korea Norway Hungary Sheen Dae-Cheol, Chair of Federated Bjørn Aksdal, Chair János Sipos, Chair of National Committee States of of National Committee National Committee Micronesia Kuwait Augustine C. Kohler, Liaison Oman Iceland Lisa Urkevich, Officer Nasser Al-Taee, Guðrún Liaison Officer Liaison Officer Ingimundardóttir, Liaison Moldova Officer Kyrgyzstan Diana Bunea, Liaison Pakistan Kanykei Mukhtarova, Officer Shumaila Hemani, India Liaison Officer Liaison Officer Shubha Chaudhuri, Mongolia Chair of National Committee Laos Otgonbayar Palau Bountheng Chuluunbaatar, Liaison Simeon Adelbai, Indonesia Souksavatd, Liaison Officer Officer Liaison Officer Made Mantle Hood, Liaison Officer Latvia Montenegro Papua New Anda Beitāne, Zlata Marjanović, Guinea Iran Liaison Officer Liaison Officer Naomi Faik-Simet, Liaison Mohammad Reza Officer Azadehfar, Liaison Officer Lebanon Morocco Nidaa Abou Mrad, Lhoussain Simour, Peru Iraq Liaison Officer Liaison Officer Efraín Rozas, Liaison Scheherazade Q. Officer Hassan, Liaison Officer Lithuania Rimantas Sliužinskas, Chair of National Committee

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Philippines Spain Turkmenistan Zambia José Buenconsejo, Francisco J. García Shakhym Gullyev, Mwesa I. Mapoma, Liaison Officer Gallardo, Chair of National Liaison Officer Liaison Officer Committee Poland Uganda Zimbabwe Ewa Dahlig, Chair of Sri Lanka James Isabirye, Chair Jerry Rutsate, National Committee Lasanthi of National Committee Liaison Officer Manaranjanie Kalinga Dona, Portugal Liaison Officer Ukraine Salwa El-Shawan Olha Kolomyyets, Castelo-Branco, Chair of Sudan Liaison Officer National Committee Mohammed Adam Sulaiman Abo-Albashar, United Arab Puerto Rico Liaison Officer Emirates Mareia Quintero Virginia L. Danielson, Rivera, Liaison Officer Swaziland Liaison Officer Cara Stacey, Liaison Romania Officer United Constantin Secară, Kingdom Sweden Liaison Officer Keith Howard, Chair of Ingrid Åkesson, Chair National Committee Russia of National Committee Olga Pashina, Liaison United States Officer Switzerland of America Marc-Antoine Camp, Anne Rasmussen, Chair of Serbia Chair of National Committee National Committee Danka Lajić- Mihajlović, Chair of National Taiwan Uruguay Committee Tsai Tsung-Te, Chair Marita Fornaro, of Regional Committee Liaison Officer Singapore Joseph Peters, Tajikistan Uzbekistan Liaison Officer Faroghat Azizi, Alexander Djumaev, Liaison Officer Liaison Officer Slovakia Bernard Garaj, Chair Tanzania Vanuatu of National Committee Imani Sanga, Liaison Monika Stern, Liaison Officer Officer Slovenia Mojca Kovačič, Chair Thailand Venezuela of National Committee Bussakorn Binson, Katrin Lengwinat, Liaison Officer Liaison Officer Solomon Islands Tunisia Vietnam Anas Ghrab, Liaison Irene Karongo Hundleby, Phạm Minh Hương, Officer Liaison Officer Chair of National Committee South Africa Turkey Arzu Öztürkmen, Alvin Petersen, Yemen Liaison Officer Chair of National Committee Jean Lambert, Liaison Officer

Bulletin of the ICTM Vol. 133 — January 2017 — Page 45 GENERAL INFORMATION Study Groups

ICTM Study Groups are formed by ICTM members sharing a common area of scholarly study. Their general provisions are deﬁned by the Memorandum on Study Groups, and may be further governed by their own bylaws.

Study Groups organize symposia and meetings, and publish their own works.

African Musics Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe Chair: Patricia A. Opondo Chair: Velika Stojkova Seraﬁmovska

Applied Ethnomusicology Music and Dance of Oceania Chair: Klisala Harrison Chair: Brian Diettrich

Audiovisual Ethnomusicology Music and Gender Chair: Leonardo D’Amico Chair: Barbara L. Hampton

Ethnochoreology Music and Minorities Chair: Catherine E. Foley Chair: Ursula Hemetek

Historical Sources of Traditional Music Music Archaeology Co-Chairs: Susanne Ziegler & Ingrid Åkesson Chair: Arnd Adje Both

Iconography of the Performing Arts Music in the Arab World Chair: Zdravko Blažeković Chair: Scheherazade Hassan

Maqām Music of the Turkic-speaking World Chair: Alexander Djumaev Chair: Razia Sultanova

Mediterranean Music Studies Musical Instruments Chair: Ruth Davis Chair: Gisa Jähnichen

Multipart Music Musics of East Asia Chair: Ardian Ahmedaja Chair: Helen Rees

Music and Allied Arts of Greater South Musics of the Slavic World Asia Chair: Elena Shishkina Chair: Richard K. Wolf Performing Arts of Southeast Asia Chair: Mohd Anis Md Nor

Bulletin of the ICTM Vol. 133 — January 2017 — Page 46 GENERAL INFORMATION Executive Board

The Executive Board consists of a President, two Vice Presidents, and nine Ordinary Members elected by the Council’s membership. The Executive Board may additionally co-opt up to three Ordinary Members.

Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco Don Niles Razia Sultanova Portugal Papua New Guinea UK President (2013-2017) Vice President (2013-2017) Vice President (2015-2019)

Samuel Araújo, Jr. Naila Ceribašić Catherine E. Foley Marie Agatha Ozah Brazil Croatia Ireland Nigeria EB Member (2011-2017) EB Member (2011-2017) EB Member (2015-2017) EB Member (2015-2017)

Jonathan P.J. Stock Kati Szego Tan Sooi Beng Terada Yoshitaka UK/Ireland Canada Malaysia (寺⽥吉孝) EB Member (2013-2019) EB Member (2011-2017) EB Member (2015-2021) Japan EB Member (2013-2019)

Trần Quang Hải J. Lawrence Witzleben Xiao Mei (萧梅) France USA China EB Member (2011-2017) EB Member (2015-2021) EB Member (2013-2019)

Bulletin of the ICTM Vol. 133 — January 2017 — Page 47 GENERAL INFORMATION Secretariat

The Secretariat is the body responsible for the day-to-day operations of ICTM, and is the main channel of communication Contact information between the Council’s governing body—the Executive Board—and International Council for Traditional Music its members, subscribers, partners, and aﬃliates.

The Secretariat comprises the Secretary General and the Executive Department of Musicology Assistant, who are both appointed by the Executive Board for an Faculty of Arts initial period of four years. The current Secretariat has been based University of Ljubljana at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, since July 2011, with Aškerčeva 2 Svanibor Pettan as Secretary General and Carlos Yoder as 1000 Ljubljana Executive Assistant. Slovenia

Phone: +1 410 501 5559 E-mail: [email protected] Skype: ictmslovenia Website: www.ictmusic.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/ictmusic Flickr group: www.ﬂickr.com/groups/ictmusic

Svanibor Pettan Carlos Yoder Secretary General Executive Assistant Slovenia Argentina/Slovenia

The University of Ljubljana, host institution of the current ICTM Secretariat.

Bulletin of the ICTM Vol. 133 — January 2017 — Page 48 GENERAL INFORMATION Membership Information

The International Council for Traditional Music is a (***) Available only to applicants retired from full time scholarly organization that aims to further the study, work who have been members of the ICTM for at least five practice, documentation, preservation, and dissemination of years. traditional music and dance of all countries. To these ends the Council organizes World Conferences, Symposia, and Memberships for organizations Colloquia, and publishes the Yearbook for Traditional Corporate Memberships are available to institutions, Music and the online Bulletin of the ICTM. libraries, regional scholarly societies, radio-television organizations, and other corporate bodies. Corporate As a non-governmental organization in formal consultative Members are able to choose the number of individuals they relations with UNESCO and by means of its wide would like to attach to their Corporate Membership (a international representation and the activities of its Study minimum of four). These “Corporate Related Members” Groups, the International Council for Traditional Music enjoy the same benefits as full Ordinary Members, i.e., acts as a bond among peoples of different cultures and thus participation in the Council’s activities, voting in elections, contributes to the peace of humankind. receipt of publications, and access premium website content. Membership Institutional Subscriptions to the Yearbook for All ICTM memberships run from 1 January to 31 Decem‐ Traditional Music are available in electronic-only, ber, except for Life and Joint Life Memberships (see below). print-only, and print+electronic formats. Please visit this page for more information. Members in good standing are entitled to:

1. Participate in the activities of the Council (such as Supporting memberships presenting a paper at a World Conference). All members who are able to sponsor individuals or 2. Receive the Council’s publications. institutions in a soft-currency country are urged do so by paying an additional fee of EUR 30.00 for each sponsored 3. Obtain access to premium website content (such as the individual or institution. If the recipient is not named, ICTM Online Directory). ICTM will award the supported membership to one or more 4. Vote in ICTM elections. individuals or institutions in such countries.

Memberships for individuals Payment methods ✴ Ordinary Membership: EUR 60.00 Remittance payable to the ICTM Secretariat is preferred in ✴ Joint Ordinary Membership (*): EUR 90.00 euros via Electronic Funds Transfer (aka bank transfer, giro, wire transfer, or SEPA/UPO order). Other currencies ✴ Student Membership (**): EUR 40.00 and payment methods are accepted (major credit and debit ✴ Emeritus Membership (***): EUR 40.00 cards, PayPal, cheques), but additional charges may apply. ✴ Life Membership: EUR 1,200.00 For any questions regarding memberships, please write to ✴ Joint Life Membership (*): EUR 1,500.00 [email protected]. (*) Joint Memberships are available for spouses who both wish to join. They receive only one set of ICTM publications, but otherwise enjoy all the other privileges and responsibilities of Ordinary Members.

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Yearbook for Traditional Music Bulletin of the ICTM

The Yearbook for Traditional Music is a refereed scholarly The Bulletin of the International Council for Traditional journal which carries essays, reviews, and reports in the area Music carries news from the world of traditional music and of traditional music and dance research. dance, a calendar of upcoming events, and reports from ICTM Study Groups and ICTM National and Regional ISSN (Print): 0740-1558 Representatives. ISSN (Online): 2304-3857 ISSN (Online): 2304-4039 General Editor: Kati Szego. Editor: Carlos Yoder. The Yearbook was established in 1949 as the Journal of the International Folk Music Council. It is published in English The Bulletin of the ICTM was established in 1948 as the every November. All ICTM members and institutional Bulletin of the International Folk Music Council. Until its subscribers in good standing receive a copy of the Yearbook April 2011 issue (Vol. 118), the Bulletin was printed and via priority air mail. posted to all members and subscribers. Starting with its October 2011 issue (Vol. 119), the Bulletin became an The 2016 issue the Yearbook (Vol. 48), was published in electronic-only publication. November 2016. The Bulletin of the ICTM is made available through the ICTM’s website in January, April, and October each year. It can be downloaded free of charge, and all are encouraged to redistribute it according to the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 Unported License, which protects it.

For more information about submissions, and how to access or purchase back issues, please visit the Bulletin’s home page. The full collection of past Bulletins can be browsed and downloaded from this page.

Online Membership Directory

The Online Membership Directory is a rich, comprehensive, and secure repository of information about the Council’s constituency, and a powerful research tool for members. It is available to ICTM members in good standing at the following address: www.ictmusic.org/online-membership-directory.

For more information about submissions to the Yearbook, and how to get back issues (both in print and electronic form), please visit the Yearbook’s home page.

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