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BULLETIN of the INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL for TRADITIONAL MUSIC No. 124, January 2014 ISSN (Online): 2304-4039 CONTENTS From the Secretariat cological activities in China in 2014; XXX Calendar of Events European Seminar in Ethnomusicology: Message from the Secretary General. Pages 35-36 Crossing Bridges; Call for Papers: Music Pages 2-4 and Dance Traditions of the Slavs in the Recent Publications by ICTM Modern World; Call for Papers: 9th Inter- 43rd ICTM World Conference in Members national Symposium “Music in Society”; Astana, Kazakhstan Call for Papers: MusiCam 2014, Interna- Dance, Gender, and Meanings: Contempo- First Notice and Call for Proposals. tional Conference on Visual Ethnomusicol- rising Traditional Dance; Flower World – Pages 5-7 ogy; Call for Papers: Society for Ethnomusi- Music Archaeology of the Americas, vol. 2; cology 2014 Annual Meeting; Call for Pa- Gerlinde Haid (1943-2012). Eine Biobibliog- Announcements pers: Music and War in Europe from the raphie (klanglese 8); Growing into Music Napoleonic Era to the First World War. Announcements — ICTM: Annual Sympo- Azerbaijan: The ancient arts of Mugham sium of the ICTM Germany National Pages 13-17 and ashiq in the XXI century; Music & Ritual: Bridging Material & Living Cul- Committee; News: 3rd Symposium of the Reports ICTM Study Group on Performing Arts of tures; Studia Instrumentorum Musicae Southeast Asia (PASEA); Second Call for Reports from ICTM National and Regional Popularis III; Studies on Music and Dance Papers: 10th Symposium of the ICTM Representatives: Austria; Bulgaria; Ger- Cultures in Laos; Theory and Method in Study Group on Mediterranean Music Stud- many; Ireland; Italy; Japan; Switzerland. Urban Ethnomusicology: a special issue of ies; Call for Papers: Joint Symposium of the Pages 18-25 Lidé města [Urban People]; Tóny z Okrajů: ICTM Study Groups on Maqām and on Hudba a Marginalita [Sounds from the Reports from ICTM Study Groups: Ethno- Music in the Arab World; Call for Papers: Margins]. choreology; Multipart Music; Music Ar- Pages 37-39 20th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group chaeology; Music of the Turkic-speaking on Folk Musical Instruments; Next Sympo- World. General Information sium of the ICTM Study Group on Music Pages 26-30 Archaeology. ICTM World Network; Study Groups; Ex- Pages 8-12 Other reports: UNESCO: Report on the 8th ecutive Board, Secretariat, Membership Session of the Intergovernmental Committee Information; Publications by ICTM. Announcements — Related Organizations: for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cul- Pages 40-47 Call for Papers: 7th Musicological Meeting tural Heritage, Baku, Azerbaijan, 2-7 De- of the Université Antonine: “Which Music cember 2013. Education for Lebanon? (2)”; Ethnomusi- Pages 31-34 Bulletin of the ICTM Vol. 124 — January 2014 — Page 1 FROM THE SECRETARIAT Message from the Secretary Smith, Trần Văn Khê, and Wim van If you would like to participate in the Zanten. The Council also suffered in beta testing programme, please contact General 2013 the loss of some extraordinarily the Secretariat for additional details. by Svanibor Pettan active members: Marianne Bröcker, 2. Digitize past Bulletins Gerlinde Haid, Katalin Kovalcsik, Olive Dear members and Lewin, Jan Ling, and Barbara Sparti. Since October 2011 the Bulletin of the friends of ICTM, Happy ICTM is an online-only publication New Year and welcome Let me complete this section with my available for free download directly to the very first January sincere expression of gratitude to you from ICTM’s website. However, we issue of the Bulletin of the ICTM! for the continuous inspiration and sup- would like that all past IFMC and port given to the Secretariat and the ICTM Bulletins become available for A year in review Council. free download. The year 2013 was a very good one for ICTM’s online initiatives: Past, Please take a look at this webpage. It the Council. We witnessed an increase already contains scanned copies of the in membership figures (1085 members present, and future first two Bulletins from 1948 and 1949, and 271 institutional subscribers in During 2013 the online presence of the plus many others (but not all) from good standing), the best-attended Council (including our website and 1974 to the present day. Each Bulletin ICTM World Conference ever (with Facebook and LinkedIn pages) saw a is filled with the history, work, and per- more than 500 participants), four considerable improvement, for which sons involved in the Council. Study Group symposia, and ten new the work of Executive Assistant Carlos countries added to our World Network. Yoder should be especially commended. Can you help us? If you or a library near you has a good collection of Bulle- The expressions of deep gratitude to In 2014 the Secretariat, together with tins, please check if you can add any to past President Adrienne L. Kaeppler the Executive Board’s Website Com- our website. In addition to the Bulletin and Executive Board members Ursula mittee, will continue making the Coun- concerned, you only need a scanner. Hemetek and Timothy Rice for their cil’s Internet presence the best possible For further information about what to service to the Council are accompanied for members, subscribers, partners, and do and how you can help, please write by a warm welcome to new President affiliates. to the Secretariat. Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco, Vice President Don Niles, elected Executive We therefore invite you to participate 3. Complete the webpage on Board members Xiao Mei, Jonathan in the following online initiatives. Past ICTM World Stock, and Terada Yoshitaka, and co- Conferences 1. Become a beta tester of opted Executive Board members Mohd the new ICTM Online The Past ICTM World Conferences Anis Md Nor, Razia Sultanova, and Membership Directory webpage is one of the most recent addi- Saida Yelemanova. Since the last issue of the Bulletin, a tions to the ICTM website. Currently Due to the regular change in the Presi- good deal of progress has been made we list the dates and location of every dency of the Society for Ethnomusicol- towards relaunching the Online Mem- IFMC/ICTM Conference, but we feel ogy, we thank Harris Berger and wel- bership Directory (currently offline). much more information could be in- come Beverley Diamond as the new cluded. We would like to start testing its many Chair of the ICTM USA National new features, but we can’t do it by For example, for every conference we Committee. Similarly, it is a pleasure ourselves. If you are a member of could feature the host institution, the to thank Denis Crowdy for his service ICTM in good standing and are famil- themes, the chairs of the programme as Chair of the Study Group on Music iar with reviewing websites, please con- and local arrangements committees, the and Dance in Oceania, and to welcome sider becoming a beta tester so we can name of the keynote speaker, the con- the new Chair, Kirsty Gillespie. create together a better directory for ference website, a PDF of the pro- In 2013 five Honorary Memberships all. gramme and/or abstracts, etc. Much of were awarded by the General Assem- this information is contained in past bly: Marianne Bröcker, Joseph Hanson issues of the Bulletin, but we need your Kwabena Nketia, Barbara Barnard Bulletin of the ICTM Vol. 124 — January 2014 — Page 2 FROM THE SECRETARIAT help to dig it out and make it present- which is reproduced below, with per- From the ICTM Online Photo able for the website. mission. Gallery If you are interested in helping us make With the help of the Chair of the such information available, please write ICTM National Committee of Slovakia to the Secretariat. Oskár Elschek, who was present at the 1962 conference, we learned that the 4. Complete the webpage on IFMC delegation had travelled to Past ICTM Colloquia Záriečie to get acquainted with the The Past ICTM Colloquia webpage is multipart singing traditions of North- another recent addition to the website. Three Foi women playing the idioglottal western Slovakia. Elschek even identi- bamboo dameno jew’s harp (Kundu and Every Colloquium is listed, including fied by name a few of the people seen Digaso Festival, Daga Village, Lake their themes, venues, dates, and result- in the photo, such as Czech cinematog- Kutubu area, Southern Highlands ing publications. rapher and folklorist Karol Plicka, and Province, Papua New Guinea. Photo by Don Niles, September 2013). Visit gallery. Some information, however, is missing. the nationalities (Hungary, USA, Swe- If you would like to help us complete den) of a few others. Gallery, either of historical events of the list, please write to the Secretariat. If you can recognize any of the people the Council (such as the 1962 photo portrayed, please write to the Secretar- From a historical picture to a shown below), or of current activities of iat and help us enrich the visual history ICTM members, such as fieldwork, lec- new project: the ICTM Online of the early years of the Council. tures, symposia and other meetings, Photo Gallery Receiving this rare document moti- concerts, book presentations, work- shops, etc. In early December 2013, the Secretariat vated us to start a new ICTM On- received an unexpected e-mail from the line Photo Gallery, curated by the Submitted photos should be no larger mayor of Záriečie, a village in north- Secretariat, and hosted by photo shar- than 2000 pixels to a side, and encoded western Slovakia. He wrote that in 1962 ing website Flickr. The Gallery will in JPEG format with a resolution of 72 participants of the 15th IFMC Annual strive to document both past and pre- pixels per inch (standard ‘web resolu- Conference (held in Gottwaldov, sent activities of the Council, and we tion’). A caption should also be pro- Czechoslovakia, now called Zlín in hope you will share our enthusiasm in vided for every submitted photo, as Czech Republic) had visited the village starting such a project! well as the name of the photographer.