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BULLETIN of the INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL for TRADITIONAL MUSIC ICNo. T138, October 2018M ISSN (Online): 2304-4039 CONTENTS Secretariat and Executive Board Reports Calendar of Events Message from the Secretary General; Mes- Reports from ICTM National and Regional Page 49 sage from the President; Outreach with Representatives: Albania; Austria; France; Central Asia; General Survey of ICTM Germany; Iran; Italy; Latvia; Oman; Singa- Featured Publications by ICTM Members; Call for Nominations for ICTM pore; Switzerland; Tunisia; Uruguay; Ye- Members 2019 Elections. men. Asian-European Music Research E-Journal; Pages 2–5 Pages 10–24 Becoming a Garamut Player in Baluan, Papua New Guinea; Reports from the 45th ICTM World Conference Reports from ICTM Study Groups: African Musics; Audiovisual Ethnomusicology; Eth- ICTM National Committee for Germany, Fourth Notice; LAC Report, July 2018. nochoreology; Historical Sources; Maqām; 2010–2013; The Moving Space: Women in Dance; Turkic Soundscapes: From Shaman- Pages 6–8 Mediterranean Music Studies; Music and Dance in Latin America and the Caribbean; ic Voices to Hip-Hop Announcements Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe; Pages 50–51 Music and Gender; Musics of East Asia; National Committee for Germany: 2019 Performing Arts of Southeast Asia. General Information Annual Symposium; Study Group on Mu- sical Instruments: Symposium Pages 25–43 ICTM World Network; Study Groups; Ex- ecutive Board, Secretariat, Membership Page 9 Other reports: 3rd ICTM Forum; Minority Sounds in National Contexts as Seen by Information; Publications by ICTM. ICTM National and Regional Representat- Pages 52–59 ives. Pages 44–48 Bulletin of the ICTM Vol. 138 — October 2018 — Page !1 SECRETARIAT AND EXECUTIVE BOARD Message from the Secretary General support will be available only for symposia being held in non-conference years. This allowance will primarily assist by Ursula Hemetek with expenses related to travel and/or accommodation of ICTM members who would wish to present their research at As you can see from the very rich Study Group symposia held in parts of the world where the Reports section in this Bulletin (see pages Council is underrepresented. Further details will be an- 10–48), it was a very busy summer for nounced in due course by the Secretariat. ICTM. I want to thank all of you who were involved. The ICTM World Network was discussed at length during the last Executive Board meeting. You might notice a novelty The ICTM Study Groups were very in the World Network section of this Bulletin (see pages 52– active, as it is always the case in non-conference years. Many 54): some countries are listed as being “in search of new rep- of them held symposia and business meetings in all parts of resentative”—please have a look and feel inspired to act! the world (see also Study Group’s websites). Some of them Representing ICTM in a a country means a great responsibil- held elections, one of them was renamed, and there is a new ity and a certain amount of work (e.g., submitting country one: the ICTM Study Group on Music and Dance in Latin reports for the Bulletin), and requires continuous communic- America and the Caribbean was approved by the Executive ation with the Secretariat and maintaining an ICTM mem- Board after fulfilling all requirements. There was a founding bership in good standing (support is possible). To underline scholarly meeting of the Study-Group-in-the-Making in Salto, the importance of such a position we have created a new Uruguay, this past April, with more than 150 participants agreement that all new representatives will sign. We also wel- (see pages 35–37). Out of this resulted a very convincing come the following newly appointed representatives of the proposal. Nora Bammer and Javier Silvestrini will function ICTM World Network: Juan Sebastián Rojas, who succeeds as liaisons with ICTM until elections will be held. To have a Ana María Ochoa as the Liaison Officer (LO) for Colombia; Study Group representing ICTM in Latin America seemed Urmimala Sarkar Munsi, who succeeds Shubha Chaudhuri as overdue, and I am very happy about this development. LO for India; Aisha Bilkhair, who succeeds Virginia Daniel- I want to welcome the newly elected Co-Chairs of the re- son as LO for the United Arab Emirates; and Rafik Al Akuri, cently renamed Study Group on Historical Sources (formerly who succeeds Jean Lambert as LO for Yemen. Domenico Study Group on Historical Sources of Traditional Music) Staiti, Éamonn Costello, Dan Lundberg, and Marcello Sorce Gerda Lechleitner and Susana Sardo; the new executives of Keller have been elected Chairs of the National Committees Study Group on Musics of the Slavic World, Ulrich Morgen- for Italy, Ireland, Sweden, and Switzerland, respectively. A stern (Chair), Jana Ambrózová (Vice Chair), and Lukasz warm welcome to all! Smoluch (Secretary); and the new Chair of the Study Group The ICTM World Conference in Bangkok is taking on Musics of East Asia, Kim Hee-sun. shape, from both content and organizational standpoints. As a sign of appreciation for the importance of the work of The deadline for submitting proposals has now passed, and Study Groups, an important decision was made at the Exec- the Programme Committee will shortly begin the evaluation utive Board meeting in Bangkok last July, following the initi- of the numerous received proposals. I am confident that the ative to fund participants of three Study Group symposia Bangkok World Conference will be a most memorable event. earlier in the year, as mentioned in the previous Bulletin. One more issue is on my mind that I would very much like to The Executive Board’s Committee concerning the Maud bring to your attention. As you know, the Council’s goal is to Karpeles, Young Scholars, and Other Funds, together with work towards incrementing transparency and democracy in the Secretariat, proposed to establish a biennial Study Group every possible way. One tool on this journey is the General Allowance that would support the participation of ICTM Survey of ICTM Members (see page 4). We are very members in Study Group symposia. The proposal was based much looking forward to your feedback, so we hope you will on the conviction that Study Groups truly represent so much take 10–15 minutes to complete the survey once it launches of what the Council strives to be, and that consequently, the on 6 November 2018. The other tool is of course our bienni- Council should make it a priority to support the scholarly al elections. As you can see on page 5 there is an an- meetings of Study Groups. The Executive Board approved nouncement in this Bulletin, so please make use of this tool the proposal, and therefore a new ICTM Study Group Al- of democracy by nominating candidates—the process is open lowance will be implemented, starting with the year 2020, as now! Bulletin of the ICTM Vol. 138 — October 2018 — Page !2 SECRETARIAT AND EXECUTIVE BOARD Message from the President versity of Rio de Janeiro it was the oldest research institution in the country, and offered postgraduate programmes in so- by Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco cial anthropology, archaeology, botany, linguistics, indigenous languages, zoology, and geosciences. Anthony Seeger was a As 2018 draws to an end, I would like to faculty member in the influential social anthropology pro- take this opportunity to thank all those gramme between 1975 and 1982, and its director from 1981 who contributed to the Council’s activit- to 1982. In this capacity, he trained a generation of Brazil’s ies throughout the year. Special thanks to prominent scholars, including the late ethnomusicologist the hosts, Programme and Local Ar- Elizabeth Travassos Lins, former ICTM member and Vice rangements Committees of all Study President of ABET (the Brazilian Association of Eth- Group symposia and the 3rd ICTM Forum. I would also like nomusicology), and anthropologists Maria Laura Cavalcanti to join our Secretary General in extending a warm welcome and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. It has been widely acknow- to our new national representatives: Juan Sebastián Rojas ledged that the loss of Brazil’s National Museum was due to (Colombia), Urmimala Sarkar Munsi (India), Éamonn Cos- long-term state disinvestment and neglect. This worldwide tello (Ireland), Domenico Staiti (Italy), Dan Lundberg tragedy as well as the loss of heritage in areas devastated by (Sweden), Marcello Sorce Keller (Switzerland), Aisha war and natural disasters is a stark reminder of the need for Bilkhair (United Arab Emirates), and Rafik al-Akuri (Ye- intensifying our collective efforts to assure the necessary con- men). The ICTM governance (President, Secretary General, ditions for safeguarding and repatriating music and dance and Executive Board) and membership look forward to col- heritage worldwide. laborating with you in disseminating the Council’s work in your countries and involving local scholars in our activities. I end this brief note with two excellent pieces of news. In recognition of his seminal contribution to the development of Last July, the Executive Board held its annual meeting at Brazilian Studies in Brazil and the United States, Anthony Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok, Thailand), where our Seeger, former ICTM President and Secretary General, and 45th World Conference will be held in July 2019. The Board Professor Emeritus at the University of California at Los visited the excellent facilities where our conference will con- Angeles, received a Life Contribution Award from the vene. We also discussed many details concerning the confer- Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA). Congratulations to ence’s organization with the Co-Chair of the Local Arrange- Professor Seeger for this recognition. ments Committee and Executive Board member Bussakorn Binson. Many thanks to Professor Binson and her wonderful The Austrian Science Fund announced that Ursula Hemetek, team for their generous hospitality and hard work in prepar- ICTM Secretary General, Professor of Ethnomusicology, and ation for the conference.