International Council for Traditional Music
A Non-Governmental Organisation in Formal Consultative Relations with UNESCO
ICTM Study Group on Music and Minorities
Objectives:
The Study Group focuses on music and minorities by means of research, documentation and interdisciplinary study. It serves as a forum for cooperation among scholars through meetings, publications and correspondence.
Definition of the term minority
Minorities are groups of people distinguishable from the dominant group for cultural, ethnic, social, religious, or economic reasons.
Music and Minorities in Ethnomusicology: Challenges and Discourses from Three Continents (2012, klanglese 7)
The ICTM Study Group on Music and Minorities has regularly held meetings and was able to publish the results regularly as well. The Study Group meeting which is the subject of this publication was held in Hanoi/Vietnam from 19 to 24 July 2010, and was a joint meeting with the Study Group on Applied Ethnomusicology. It was the 6th meeting of our Study Group and the first outside Europe, which was meant to add to the quality of international cooperation and additionally to benefit ethnomusicology and minority research in the region itself.
Programme: 7th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Minorities
- 7-12 August 2012, Zefat/Israel
- Location: Zefat Academic College, Zefat, Israel
- Local organizer: Essica Marks
- Program committee: Ursula Hemetek (chair), Adelaida Reyes, Yoshitaka Terada, Naila Ceribašić, Essica Marks.
You can download the Final Program in PDF format from this link.
Minutes of the 15th Business Meeting, 9 August 2012, Zefat Academic College
ICTM STUDY GROUP ON MUSIC AND MINORITIES
Minutes of the 15th Business Meeting
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Zefat Academic College
Zefat, Israel
The meeting was called to order by Ursula Hemetek, chair, at 14:30.
1. Introductory remarks included a warm welcome to members present. Apologies for absence, in particular from Naila Ceribašić, a member of the program committee, were noted.
Call for Papers: 7th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Minorities
August 7 – 12, 2012, Zefat, Israel, Zefat Academic College
Colleagues are warmly invited to join the meeting and present papers.
Please submit abstracts, not to exceed one double-spaced printed or typewritten page, by January 20, 2012.
Themes:
Music and Minority Nationalisms
Minutes of the meeting of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Minorities, July 15th 2011
Friday, July 15, 2011
The School of Music, Memorial University
St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada
During the 41st World Conference of the ICTM in Canada (July 13-19, 2011), the Music and Minorities Study Group held its business meeting, chaired by Ursula Hemetek. The meeting was called to order at 5:45 PM.
Programme: 6th symposium of the Study Group on Music and Minorities & 2nd Symposium of the Study Group on Applied Ethnomusicology
Call for Papers: Joint Symposium with ICTM Study Group on Applied Ethnomusicology - Hanoi, 19-30 July 2010
ICTM MUSIC AND MINORITIES STUDY GROUP TO MEET JOINTLY WITH THE APPLIED ETHNOMUSICOLOGY STUDY GROUP IN HANOI, VIETNAM, JULY 19-30, 2010
Minutes of the 13th General Assembly (Business Meeting) July 22, 2010, Hanoi, Vietnam
Programme and Abstracts: 5th Symposium, Prague, 24 May -1 June, 2008
5th Meeting of the Study Group Music and Minorities
Prague, 24 May – 1 June 2008
Venue: Hotel Jeneralka, IBTS Campus, Nad Habrovkou 3, 16400 Prague 6, Czech Republic
Organized by the Faculty of Humanities of the Charles University in Prague
in partnership with the Ethnological Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences of the CR, and Slovo 21
For full details, please see the conference web-page: http://musicandminorities.googlepages.com
Minutes of the 10th Business Meeting of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Minorities, 29 May 2008, Prague
Hotel Jeneralka, Prague, Czech Republic
The meeting was called to order at 2:10 PM by the Study Group president, Ursula Hemetek. Svanibor Pettan, vice-president, assisted her.
Minutes of the 9th Business Meeting of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Minorities, 10 July 2007, Universitat fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Vienna
The meeting was called to order at 8:00 PM, Ursula Hemetek (President of the Study Group) presiding, assisted by Svanibor Pettan (Vice-Presdient).
1, Professor Hemetek gave a brief history of the Study Group which began in 1997 and was officially approved in 1999. More detailed information can be accessed through the ICTM website.
Minutes of the 8th Business Meeting, 28 August 2006, Varna
Monday, August 28 2006 at Horizont Hotel, Golden Sands, Varna,Bulgaria
The meeting, attended by participants in the Study Group meeting in Varna, was cochaired by Ursula Hemetek (Austria) and Svanibor Pettan (Slovenia).
1. Since the minutes of the Study Group meetings are posted on the Study Group web site, the minutes of the 2005 meeting held in Sheffield, UK were presented to the attendees in summary form. They were approved by common consent.
Requirements for Study Group Meetings - for local organizers
These are the requirements for Meetings of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Minorities for local organizers, based on the experiences from former meetings.
Publications
Music and Minorities in Ethnomusicology: Challenges and Discourses from Three Continents (klanglese 7) Ursula Hemetek editor, 2012
Contact
Dr. Ursula Hemetek
Institute for Folk Music Research
University for Music and Performing arts Vienna
Ungargasse 14
1030 Vienna
Tel: +43-1-71155-4211
Fax: +43-1-71155-4299
e-mail: hemetek@mdw.ac.at
Operating procedures
INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR TRADITIONAL MUSIC (ICTM)
STUDY GROUP ON MUSIC and MINORITIES
OPERATING PROCEDURES
1. Name
The name of the organization shall be ICTM Study Group on Music and Minorities (hereafter ?Study Group?). The Study Group is an appointed committee of the Executive Board of the International Council for Traditional Music [ICTM Rules 1984: paragraph 8, article i]. The ICTM is a non-profit non-governmental international organization in formal consultative relations with UNESCO.
2. Objectives
