A Non-Governmental Organisation in Formal Consultative Relations with UNESCO
Welcome to the ICTM Study Group for Music of the Turkic Speaking World

The Study Group members, at our last meeting on May 26 – 30, 2010, at the Free University of Berlin, Germany
Organizational Plan
Executive members of the Study Group are:
Dorit Klebe ( Germany) and Razia Sultanova ( UK)
The executive members Dorit Klebe (Germany) and Razia Sultanova ( UK)
will act as liaison to the ICTM Executive Board and its Coordinator of Study Groups as well as to the ICTM Secretariat. They will give reports on the Study Group’s activities to the Coordinator of Study Groups and to the ICTM Secretariat.
In addition, Executive Members of our large org. committee are:
Janos Sipos (Hungary),
Feza Tansuğ (Turkey)
Keith Howard (UK)
Fattah Khalig-Zada ( Azerbaijan),
Saida Elemanova (Kazakhstan)
Irene Markoff ( Canada),
Inna Naroditskaya (U.S.A.)
Hande Sağlam (Austria),
Tom Solomon (Norway),
Galina Sytchenko ( Russia),
The Study Group Conference will be organized every two years.
The next Study Group Conference will take place in the year 2008, presumably in the region of the Caucasus, in Baku/Azerbaijan.
Concerning the exact date for this meeting the executive members will consult the Coordinator of Study Groups and the ICTM Secretariat.
The business meetings will be held once a year; that is a year in the course of a ICTM-World conference and the other year during a Study Group meeting.
Elections:
The Study Group’s first Board election will be in 2008. Following Board elections will be held every three years. A call for nominations for the three positions on the board (Chair, Vice-Chair, and Secretary) will be sent out 180 days prior to the business meeting.
Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to announce that the Third Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music of the Turkic Speaking World will take place on 1-2 December 2012 at the University of Cambridge, UK.
The title of the Symposium is “Popular Culture in Turkic Asia and Afghanistan: Performance and Belief”
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
5:45 – 6:45
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 meeting of the Study Group Music of the Turkish Speaking World chaired by Razia Sultanova was called to order on Wednesday , July 13, 2011, at 5:45 PM in the room 2017 .
1. The meeting started with warm welcome to present members of the Study Group
Razia Sultanova (Ed.)
Sacred Knowledge: Schools or revelation?
Master-Apprentice System of Oral Transmission in the music of the Turkic Speaking world
The Study Group on “Music of the Turkic-speaking World“ within the ICTM International Council for Traditional Music (UNESCO/NGO) will set in its Second Meeting a focuss on free-metric singing traditions within a far-reaching and complexe cultural area, determined by its transcontinental hugeness as well as its manifold interactions of most different and partly also marginal cultures. Which are the genres containing free-metric singing? Which are the structures of poetry and music? What is their meaning for every individual person, f. i. of being an identifying marker?
Second Meeting of the ICTM Study Group on Music of the Turkic-speaking World,
May 26 – 30, 2010, at the Free University of Berlin, Germany
“Music of the Turkic Speaking World”
Organizational Plan
Executive members of the Study-Group in-the-Making are:
Dorit Klebe ( Germany) and Razia Sultanova ( UK)
The executive members Dorit Klebe (Germany) and Razia Sultanova ( UK)
will act as liaison to the ICTM Executive Board and its Coordinator of Study Groups as well as to the ICTM Secretariat. They will give reports on the Study Group’s activities to the Coordinator of Study Groups and to the ICTM Secretariat.
Report on activities in 2005 and 2006
of the Study-Group in-the-Making on
“Music of the Turkic Speaking World”