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BULLETIN of the INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL for TRADITIONAL MUSIC ICNo.T 131, April 2016M ISSN (Online): 2304-4039 CONTENTS From the Secretariat Performing Arts of Southeast Asia Music: Style and Spectacle From the 1970s (PASEA). to the 2000s; Into The Mix: People, Places, Message from the Secretary General. Processes; Listening to China's Cultural Search for the next General Editor of the Pages 8-9 Revolution; Performing Nostalgia: Yearbook for Traditional Music. Reports Migration Culture and Creativity in South Pages 2-4 Albania; Songs of the Empty Place: The Reports from ICTM National and Regional Memorial Poetry of the Foi of the Southern 44th ICTM World Conference (2017) Representatives: Australia & New Zealand; Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea Azerbaijan; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Third Notice and Call for Proposals. Egypt; Ghana; Japan; Lithuania; Slovenia. Pages 24-25 Pages 5-7 Pages 10-22 General Information Announcements Calendar of Events ICTM World Network; Study Groups; 5th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group Executive Board, Secretariat, Membership Page 23 on Music and Dance in Southeastern Information; Publications by ICTM. Europe. 1st Joint Symposium of the ICTM Featured Publications by ICTM Pages 27-34 Study Group on Mediterranean Music Members Studies and the International Musicological Society. 9th Symposium of the ICTM Multipart Music: Personalities and Study Group on Music and Minorities. Educated Musicians in Traditional 29th Symposium of the ICTM Study Practices; Music in Art 50 1-2: Neoclassical Group on Ethnochoreology. Call for Reverberations of Discovering Antiquity; Proposals: 21st Symposium of the ICTM An Audiovisual Exploration of Philippine Study Group on Musical Instruments. 4th Music: The Historical Contribution of Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Robert Garfias; Global Glam and Popular Bulletin of the ICTM Vol. 131 — April 2016 — Page 1 FROM THE SECRETARIAT Message from the Study Group news Richard K. Wolf (chair), Anna Schultz, Natalie Sarrazin, Peter Kvetko, and The number of ICTM Study Groups Secretary General Robbie Beahrs, contained paper recently rose to twenty-one! The presentations, panels, concerts, and by Svanibor Pettan newest is the Study Group on film presentations. The keynote speaker Music and Allied Arts of Greater Next ICTM World was Stephen Blum. South Asia. Its approval by the Conference Executive Board (the formal From the Mission Statement of the new As you will see on the endorsement will take place at the ICTM Study Group: “We encourage Third Notice and Call Board meeting in Limerick in June collaborative and comparative work for Proposals (pages 5-7), preparations 2016) was based on a successful with colleagues across the region and for the 44th World Conference, with international conference held on 4-6 areas connected through geographical which the Council will mark its 70th March 2016 at Harvard University and contiguity, diaspora, trade, and the anniversary in 2017, are in full swing. on the required procedures handled by Internet. We wish to promote the acts the initiator and host of the event, of doing and making—whether that The Local Arrangements and Richard K. Wolf. The conference involves performing, dancing, compos‐ Programme Committees remind you brought together more than sixty ing, drawing, or any other relevant that the Call for Proposals is open researchers working in and beyond the form of participation—as integral parts until 30 September 2016. Please bounds of South Asia, extended to the of scholarly study. We strive toward make sure to send your proposals in western and central parts of the world's inclusiveness with regard to scholarly time. The Executive Board will have largest continent. Participants came approaches and participation”. its regular annual meeting in late June from Canada, Germany, the 2016 at the conference site, the The webpage of the new Study Group Netherlands, Pakistan, Russia, Sri University of Limerick's Irish World is already online at the ICTM website, Lanka, United Kingdom, and United Academy of Music and Dance. The so please consider reading more about States. The conference attracted a wide meeting will be followed by a one-day this exciting development there. range of topics and theoretical symposium titled “The Contributions orientations, with contribu‐tions by In an attempt to register the existence of Ethnomusicology and scholars at varying stages of their of Study Group publications and to Ethnochoreology to Vernacular Music careers. The event, organized by a contribute to their scholarly strength, if and Dance Education in 3rd Level program committee consisting of needed, the Executive Board invites all Institutions”. Study Group Chairs to send their manuscripts to the Secretariat for pre‐ publication approvals, as stated in the Guidelines on ICTM Publications. Among the many Study Group Sympo‐ sia scheduled to be held in 2016, let me single out the 1st Joint Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Mediterra‐ nean Music Studies (STG-MMS) and the International Musicological Society (IMS), in Naples, Italy, from 21 to 26 June. Co‐organized by the Chair of STG-MMS Ruth Davis and the Presi‐ dent of IMS Dinko Fabris, this scholar‐ ly gathering can be seen as a continua‐ tion of ongoing efforts aimed at Richard K. Wolf (right) performing with David Nelson during the 60th Annual strengthening cooperation between Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology. Austin, Texas, USA. 4 December 2015. ICTM and its sister societies. Another Photo by Svanibor Pettan. joint event, still in development, in Bulletin of the ICTM Vol. 131 — April 2016 — Page 2 FROM THE SECRETARIAT which ICTM will join forces with IMS Chinese, French, Hindi, Russian, and and the International Association of Spanish languages which we believe Music Libraries, Archives and Docu‐ will be key in helping the Council reach mentation Centres (IAML), will be fellow researchers of music and dance presented in the near future. in various parts of the world. The most recent version of the ICTM brochure The rich year of 2016 will also feature a (in English) is available online here; new ICTM Colloquium. Envisioned by please contact the Secretariat if you Xiao Mei and John Lawrence would need copies of them sent to you. Witzleben around the theme “Plucked Lutes of the Silk Road”, it will bring Conclusion invited specialists from all over the Our distinguished and very active world to Shanghai between 20 and 23 member Elsie Ivancich Dunin recently October. Detailed information about received the National Folk Organiza‐ this Colloquium can be found in the tion’s Preserving our Heritage Award January 2016 issue of the Bulletin, and for a lifetime of work and achievement online. in folk dance and folk arts. Let me Search for General Editor Elsie Ivancich Dunin receiving the extend congratulations to two National Folk Organization’s remarkable colleagues who were In the previous issue of the Bulletin, Preserving Our Heritage Award. Santa awarded the 27th Koizumi Fumio Prize the notices “Search for the next Clara, USA, 11 March 2016. Photo for Ethnomusicology in 2015: Otanazar Secretary General” and “Search for a provided by Allegra Snyder. Matyakubov and Margaret Kartomi new Book Reviews Editor of the (you can read more in the report of Yearbook for Traditional Music” were the past representatives, the Council Waseda Minako on page 18). published. In this issue you can find warmly welcomes the new ones. the notice “Search for the next General Finally, let me share with you the news Call to translate ICTM brochure Editor of the Yearbook for Traditional about the passing of Michael Hauser, Music”. The current General Editor, A part of ICTM’s definition states that one of the pioneers of ethnomusicolo‐ Kati Szego, will complete her mandate “as a non‐governmental organization in gical research in Greenland. The re‐ with Vol. 49 (2017), and so it is the formal consultative relations with cordings of indigenous people, collected right time to announce the search for UNESCO and by means of its wide and commented on by him and Poul her successor. Please see the complete international representation and the Rovsing Olsen and published by the notice on page 3. activities of its Study Groups, the Danish Folklore Archives as Tradition‐ International Council for Traditional al Songs of Greenland, made a lasting World Network changes Music acts as a bond among peoples of impact on me and surely many other The ICTM World Network of National different cultures and thus contributes ethnomusicologists. Our gratitude also and Regional Representatives experi‐ to the peace of humankind”. It is clear goes to the late Ghanaian colleagues enced a few changes in representation from the almost seven decades of the Nii Yartey, Nana Danso Adbiam, in the most recent period. Henry Council’s existence that this sentence is Ebenezer Laing, and Nissio Fiagbedzi, Johnson finished his term as Chair of far from being just an attractive presented by Daniel Avorgbedor on the Australia and New Zealand Region‐ phrase. For example, ICTM World pages 17-18. al Committee, and was succeeded by Conferences have been held on both Catherine Grant. At the National sides of the Iron Curtain, in non‐ Committee for Finland, Mikko aligned and neutral countries, etc. Vanhasalo was succeeded by Anti-Ville Guided by a wish to increase the sense Kärjä, and the Chair of the National of ICTM’s “internationality”, the Committee for Ireland, Daithí Kearney, Secretariat calls for volunteers to was succeeded by Lonán Ó Briain. translate the contents of the Along with expressions of gratitude to ICTM brochure into Arabic, Bulletin of the ICTM Vol. 131 — April 2016 — Page 3 FROM THE SECRETARIAT Search for the next ✴ Prepare PDF files according to layout. 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