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BULLETIN of the INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL for TRADITIONAL MUSIC ICNo. T141, October 2019M ISSN (Online): 2304-4039 CONTENTS Secretariat and Executive Board Announcements Other Reports: 26th ICTM Colloquium; Music and Minorities Research Centre in Message from the Secretary General; Mes- Czech Republic, Germany, Poland: Joint Vienna. sage from the President; Search for the next Symposium; Study Group on African Mu- Secretary General; International Council for sics: Symposium; Study Group on Ethno- Pages 27–29 Traditional Music Article Prize; Interna- choreology: Symposium; Study Group on tional Council for Traditional Music Book Historical Sources: Symposium; Study Calendar of Events Prize; International Council for Traditional Group on Maqām: Symposium; Study Page 30 Documentary Film / Video Prize. Group on Mediterranean Music Studies: Symposium; Study Group on Music and Pages 2–5 Featured Publications by ICTM Dance in Southeastern Europe: Symposium; Members In Memoriam Study Group on Music and Dance of Oceania: Symposium; Study Group on Mu- Proceedings of the 5th Symposium of the Ernst L. Heins (1937–2019). sic and Minorities: Symposium; Study ICTM Study Group on Performing Arts of Southeast Asia; Kosovo and Metohija: A Page 6 Group on Music of the Turkic-speaking World: Project; Study Group on Music, Musical Image of Multiculturalism in the 46th ICTM World Conference Education and Social Inclusion: Symposi- 1950s and 1960s; Performing the Arts of um; Study Group on Musics of East Asia: Indonesia: Malay Identity and Politics in First Notice Symposium; Study Group on Performing the Music, Dance and Theatre of the Riau Pages 7–9 Arts of Southeast Asia: Symposium; Study Islands; Pil: Ancestral Stories of the Lihir Group on Sound, Movement, and the Sci- Islands. 45th ICTM World Conference ences: Symposium. Page 31 Local Arrangements Committee report; Pages 14–16 Programme Committee report. Minutes of General Information 44th General Assembly of ICTM Members; Reports ICTM World Network; Study Groups; Ex- Minutes of 15th Assembly of ICTM Na- Austria; Canada; Greece; Iran; Mongolia; ecutive Board, Secretariat, Membership tional and Regional Representatives; Nepal; Switzerland. Information; Publications by ICTM. Minutes of 3rd Assembly of ICTM Study Group Chairs. Pages 17–23 Pages 32–39 Pages 10–13 Reports from ICTM Study Groups: Music and Dance in Latin America and the Caribbean; Musical Instruments. Pages 24–26 Bulletin of the ICTM Vol. 141 — October 2019 — Page 1 SECRETARIAT AND EXECUTIVE BOARD Message from the Secretary General General Assembly). That is why the Secretariat and the Ex- ecutive Board strive to give back to the membership as much by Ursula Hemetek as possible, by funding the participation of delegates to ICTM events. This worked very well for the Bangkok World Our October Bulletin is always a very rich Conference, where we distributed more than EUR 34,000 document, and this issue is no exception. among 44 participants (a new record), including the funds Please take your time to take in all the awarded to us by the UNESCO Participation Programme. important announcements and reports! As revealed by the First General Survey of ICTM Members, In addition to looking back at the very Study Group meetings are the most popular events among successful World Conference in Bangkok (see reports by the our members, with 273 out of 288 responders considering Local Arrangements and Programme Committees on pages that Study Group meetings are either “very important” or 10–13), there were many other happenings that occurred dur- “extremely important.” I think it is very useful for us to have ing the World Conference: the 44th General Assembly of definitive proof that Study Groups are one of the most im- Members, the 15th Assembly of National and Regional Rep- portant bodies of ICTM. That is why we are happy that a resentatives, and the 3rd Assembly of Study Group Chairs. new Study Group Allowance that will support participation You can find the minutes of all these meetings at the corres- in Study Group symposia during 2020 was announced during ponding section of the ICTM website, and I think it is worth the 3rd Assembly of Study Group Chairs. reading them. All these assemblies are a tool to involve the membership in the Council’s policy-making, and I am grate- There are also some changes concerning Study Groups since ful that they were all very well attended, and that they our last Bulletin. I want to welcome the newly-elected offi- provided a fruitful and lively exchange of ideas. cials of the Study Group on African Musics (Chair: Sylvie Le Bomin, Vice Chair: Patricia Opondo, Secretary: Ana Flávia The biennial ICTM elections have also taken place. You can Miguel), of the Study Group on Sound, Movement, and the find a report by the Convener of the Nomination Committee Sciences (Secretary: Rafael Caro), and of the recently-re- in the minutes of the 45th General Assembly, and I also named Study Group on Music, Gender, and Sexuality (Chair: wanted to comment my own point of view. Considering my Marko Kölbl, Vice Chair: Rachel Ong, Secretary: Rasika mission to further the democracy and transparency of ICTM, Ajotikar). As you can see on the Announcements section of the participation of nearly 50% of the membership (the this Bulletin, Study Groups continue to be extremely active, highest percentage ever!) in the elections shows that we are and I would be happy to see you at some of these events. moving into the right direction. The newly elected Executive Board members also represent a younger generation of schol- The World Network is growing as well. I want to welcome ars, a fact which I appreciate very much. our new representatives from Austria (Hande Sağlam), Belgi- um (Hélène Sechehaye), Madagascar (Victor Randrianary), Our membership is constantly growing, and the new outreach and Sweden (Sverker Hyltén-Cavallius). Recently, a new Na- possibilities offered by Cambridge University Press (CUP) as tional Committee for Israel has been approved by the Exec- the publisher of the Yearbook for Traditional Music are very utive Board; congratulations! promising. I am very much looking forward to the first volume published on our behalf by CUP, which will reach Please enjoy reading the Bulletin. As always, both the editor, you by the end of this year, and I am very grateful to our Carlos Yoder, and I will be happy to read your feedback. General Editor, Lee Tong Soon, for taking up the challenge of the transition. There is another piece of news to announce: the Executive Board decided that ICTM will, for the first time in its his- tory, award prizes to exceptional articles, books, and docu- mentary films. The EB Committee responsible for this task, chaired by J. Lawrence Witzleben, has been working hard in order to announce them now (see pages 4–5). The finances of ICTM are in good shape thanks to our grow- ing membership (for more details see the minutes of the 44th Bulletin of the ICTM Vol. 141 — October 2019 — Page 2 SECRETARIAT AND EXECUTIVE BOARD Message from the President Search for the next Secretary General by Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco by Svanibor Pettan, Chair of EB Committee for the Search for a new 2019 was another exciting year for ICTM. Secretariat The high point was undoubtedly the 45th World Conference, held at the Faculty of Our Secretary General, Ursula Hemetek, Fine and Applied Arts of Chulalongkorn informed the Executive Board that she University in Bangkok, Thailand, the first would like to step down in 2021, following conference held in Southeast Asia. The the World Conference in Lisbon, when she conference was superbly organized, and very well-attended by will have been in office for four years. The over one thousand delegates. It offered a rich and diverse Executive Board has appointed a Search Committee consist- scholarly programme, workshops, exhibitions, concerts, and a ing of myself, Svanibor Pettan (Chair), Salwa El-Shawan congenial atmosphere for informal interaction among deleg- Castelo-Branco, Anthony Seeger, and Ursula Hemetek (ex ates. I reiterate my gratitude to the Local Arrangements and officio) to solicit and evaluate proposals for the next Secret- Programme Committees for their hard work. ary General and headquarters of the ICTM Secretariat. As announced during the conference’s Closing Ceremony, the The Secretariat is the body responsible for the day-to-day 46th ICTM World Conference will be held on 22–28 July operations of ICTM, and is the main channel of communica- 2021 by my home institutions, the Institute of Ethnomusico- tion between the Council’s governing body—the Executive logy–Center for Studies in Music and Dance, and the NOVA Board (EB)—and its members, subscribers, partners, and School of Social Sciences and Humanities, New University of affiliates. The Secretariat comprises the Secretary General Lisbon (NOVA-FCSH), in Lisbon, Portugal. The Programme and the Executive Assistant, who are both appointed by the Committee, chaired by Kati Szego and Susana Sardo, and EB for an initial period of four years. the Local Arrangements Committee, chaired by João Soeiro Requirements: The applicant should be a scholar of inter- de Carvalho, are already hard at work preparing the confer- national standing, an active member of ICTM, and an exper- ence. Please take a look at the conference themes announced ienced administrator. The candidate should have been an on pages 7–9 of this Bulletin and start making your plans to elected EB member for at least one term, and have had ex- attend. I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible, perience in organizing ICTM scholarly meetings. The pro- and would like to take this opportunity to remind the mem- spective Secretary General and his/her staff should be fluent bership that ICTM has created several funds for supporting in spoken and written English, and both the Secretary Gen- delegates to attend World Conferences.