The aims of the ICTM are to further the study, practice, documentation, preservation and dissemination of traditional music, including folk, popular, classical and urban music, and dance of all countries.


The ICTM is an NGO (non-governmental organization) in formal consultative relations with UNESCO.

The ICTM Secretariat has moved to Australia!

For details on the new Secretariat and the Second Notice of the 2007 ICTM World Conference, please see the April 2006 ICTM Bulletin.

Please update your records with the contact information listed below for the
NEW ICTM Secretariat at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia.

New ICTM Secretary General: Stephen Wild stephen.wild@anu.edu.au

New ICTM Executive Assistant: Lee Anne Proberts secretariat@ictmusic.org

New Address:
ICTM Secretariat
School of Music
Australian National University
Building 100
Canberra, A.C.T. 0200
Australia
telephone: +61 2 612 51449
fax: +61 2 612 59775
email: secretariat@ictmusic.org
website:http://www.ictmusic.org/ICTM/