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BULLETIN of the INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL for TRADITIONAL MUSIC No. 126, October 2014 ISSN (Online): 2304-4039 Including the third notice for the 43rd ICTM World Conference in Astana, Kazakhstan, 2015 CONTENTS From the Secretariat Pages 10-14 Recent Publications by ICTM Message from the Secretary General. Com- Announcements — Related Organizations: Members plete run of Bulletin of the IFCM/ICTM is Call for Papers: Pan-Mediterranean Poetic Dance, Place, Festival: 27th Symposium of now available online. ICTM mailing list Competitions and Their Music; Call for the International Council for Traditional available for current members. 2015 Elec- Papers: SDHS/CORD Annual Conference; Music’s Study Group on Ethnochoreology; tions: Call for Nominations. Some closing Call for Papers: CONFLUENCES 8; Notice Terminology and Theoretical Approaches thoughts. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart and Crossing National Boundaries/ Pages 2-5 goes digital; Notice: UNESCO Collection Intercultural Communication; Canadian Reissued; Call for Proposals: SOAS Musi- Folk Music Vol. 47.4; Dance Ethnography 43rd ICTM World Conference in cology Series. and Global Perspectives; Etnografías del Astana, Kazakhstan Page 15 Encuentro, Irish Traditional Step Dancing in North Kerry; Kuwait: Sea Songs of the Third Notice. Reports Pages 6-9 Arabian Gulf; Lakalaka: A Tongan Master- Reports from ICTM National and Regional piece of Performing Arts; Moving Oceans; Announcements Representatives: Albania; Austria; China; Music in Kenyan Christianity; Nyanyian Ecuador; Greece; Hungary; Israel; Italy; Anak - Anak Kaili; Past into the Present: Announcements — ICTM: Call for Papers: Japan; Kazakhstan; Kenya; Latvia; Lithua- Weddings of the Dubrovačko Primorje; Joint Conference of France and UK ICTM nia; The Netherlands; Poland; Sweden; Performing Arts in Postmodern Bali; Pra- National Committees; Local Arrangements United Kingdom; Venezuela. gue Soundscapes; Step Dancing on Ireland: Information: 20th Symposium of the Study Pages 16-37 Culture and History; (Re)Searching the Group on Folk Musical Instruments; Meet- Field; Taking Part in Music; Talking Dance; Reports from ICTM Study Groups: African ing of the ICTM Study Group on Music The Oxford Handbook of Music Revival; Musics; Ethnochoreology; Historical Sources and Gender; Call for Papers: 14th Sympo- Ukrainian Dance. of Traditional Music; Music and Dance in sium of the ICTM Study Group on Music Pages 50-53 Archaeology; Notice: Annual Symposium of Oceania; Music and Minorities; Music of Germany ICTM National Committee; No- the Turkic-speaking World; Performing General Information tice: 23rd ICTM Colloquium “Between Arts of Southeastern Asia. Speech and Song: Liminal Utterances”; Call Pages 38-48 ICTM World Network; Study Groups; Ex- for Papers: Joint SEM-ICTM Forum: ecutive Board, Secretariat, Membership Transforming Ethnomusicological Praxis Calendar of Events Information; Publications by ICTM. Pages 54-61 through Activism and Community En- Page 49 gagement; Notice: 29th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology. Bulletin of the ICTM Vol. 126 — October 2014 — Page 1 FROM THE SECRETARIAT Message from the Secretary new representatives and express sincer- doing their absolute best to ensure the est thanks to the past representatives 43rd ICTM World Conference will be a General for serving as a link between their re- landmark in the history of both the by Svanibor Pettan spective countries and ICTM: Ardian Council and our discipline. I would like Ahmedaja replaces Sokol Shupo (Alba- to express my special thanks to LAC The period following the nia), Nefen Michaelides replaces member Fatima Nurlybaeva for her April 2014 issue of the Panikos Giourgoudes (Cyprus), Mo- crucial executive work in the prepara- Bulletin was marked by hammed Azadehfar replaces Hooman tions of the World Conference. intense activities, and as Asadi (Iran), Daithí Kearney replaces a result plenty of news are shared here. Together with Razia Sultanova (Co- Jaime Jones (Ireland), Essica Marks Let me start with some encouraging Chair of the World Conference’s Pro- replaces Edwin Seroussi (Israel), Anda updates concerning our World Network, gramme Committee) I also attended an Beitāne replaces Martin Boiko (Latvia), then move to our standard scholarly international roundtable at the Kur- Ingrid Åkesson replaces Krister Malm gatherings (World Conference, Study mangazy National Conservatoire of (Sweden), and Monika Stern replaces Group Symposia, and Colloquia), some Almaty, Kazakhstan’s former capital. Raymond Ammann (Vanuatu). new ones (Joint Meeting of National Superbly organized by ICTM National Committees, Joint SEM/ICTM Fo- Representative for Kazakhstan Saule rum), then to some news about the Utegalieva, the event further confirmed Rules, Memoranda, and Guidelines of the country’s commitment to the Council, and finally, to pay our strengthen its bonds of friendship with respects to deceased colleagues. the international scholarly community. Do not miss, on pages 4-5, the call for Last but not least, please be aware that nominations for the 2015 ICTM elec- the registration for the Conference tions, and a special address by Allegra is now open. To learn more about the Fuller Snyder. Conference please see the Third Notice on pages 6-9 of this Bulletin. World Network Since April 2014, the ICTM World Study Groups and Their Network of National and Regional Rep- Symposia resentatives has been enriched by 12 Years in between ICTM World Confer- new countries. Let me take this oppor- ences are always particularly rich with tunity to warmly welcome the new rep- Study Group activities. Most Study resentatives endorsed at the 2014 Ex- Groups have already held their sympo- ecutive Board meeting held in Astana, sia in 2014, and I was able to attend Kazakhstan. Join me in welcoming three of them in the past few months: Maya Saidani (Algeria), Mário Lúcio de Performing Arts of Southeast Asia Sousa (Cape Verde), Juan Pablo Members of the ICTM Executive Board and (Denpasar, Indonesia), Ethnochoreol- González (Chile), Susan Campos Fon- the Local Arrangements Committee of the ogy (Korčula, Croatia), and Music and seca (Costa Rica), Laura Vilar (Cuba), 2015 ICTM World Conference, together Dance in Southeastern Europe (Bel- Daniel Avorgbedor (Ghana), Munira before one of the symbols of Astana, the grade and Petnica, Serbia). The quality Bayterek Tower, July 2014. Chudoba (Kyrgyzstan), Luka Mukhav- of presented papers, the interaction ele (Mozambique), Mareia Quintero among scholars, and the level of or- Rivera (Puerto Rico), Faroghat Azizi 2015 ICTM World Conference ganization convinced me that these (Tajikistan), Shakhym Gullyev (Turk- We are glad to announce that the segments of ICTM are in excellent menistan), and Jean Lambert (Yemen). preparations for the 2015 ICTM World health. Congratulations to the Study Furthermore, eight changes in represen- Conference continue at full speed. A Groups’ authorities, and the Pro- tation have occurred since the last Bul- record number of proposals was re- gramme and Local Arrangement Com- letin. I would like to both welcome the ceived, and both the Programme and mittees of each symposium. As usual, Local Arrangements Committees are Bulletin of the ICTM Vol. 126 — October 2014 — Page 2 FROM THE SECRETARIAT you can learn more about these and Joint Meetings of National The Joint Forum will be anticipated by other Study Group Symposia in the the Roundtable “ICTM and SEM: Committees Reports section of this Bulletin. It is Ethnomusicology in the International also important to mention a Joint In 9-10 May 2014, the ICTM National Arena”, which will be held during the Symposium of two ICTM Study Committees of Austria, Italy, and 59th Annual Meeting of the Society for Groups, which will take place in De- Slovenia convened for a joint meeting Ethnomusicology, in November 2014. cember 2014. Cenk Güray and his team in Pulfero, an Italian village a few will host the ICTM Study Groups on kilometres from the Slovenia border Rules, Memoranda, and Maqām and on Music in the Arab (see full report by Ignazio Macchiarella Guidelines World, in Ankara, Turkey. on pages 22-24). I had the pleasure of participating in the event, and I truly The definition, objectives, and opera- I would also like to warmly welcome tions of the Council are governed by believe that joint national meetings the new Study Group Chairs and to greatly contribute to expanding re- the Rules of the ICTM and a number thank the colleagues who have stepped of related Memoranda and Guidelines. gional cooperation across political bor- down: Ruth Davies replaces Marcello ders. This kind of events, pioneered by Following preliminary approval by the Sorce Keller as Chair of Mediterranean former Chair of the Austrian National General Assembly during the 42nd Music Studies, Terauchi Naoko replaces Committee Regine Allgayer-Kaufmann, ICTM World Conference in Shanghai, Frederick Lau as Chair of Musics of should be an inspiration for other simi- the amendment of Rule 7b (concerning East Asia, and Catherine E. Foley re- lar initiatives. the rights of Corporate Related Mem- places Lászlo Felföldi as Chair of Eth- bers) was ratified by electronic ballot nochoreology. Joint SEM-ICTM Forum earlier this year. A total of 145 votes Finally, the forthcoming World Confer- The two largest ethnomusicological were received, with 139 in favour of the ence in Astana will, for the first time, organizations will come together for the change, and 6 against. host not only an Assembly of ICTM first SEM-ICTM Forum,