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International Council for Traditional Music

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Abbreviation
  
ICTM

Region served
  
Worldwide

Type
  
INGO

Official language
  
English, French

Formation
  
000000001947-09-22-000022 September 1947

President
  
Dr. Adrienne L. Kaeppler

The International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) is a UNESCO-recognized NGO, an academic organization focused on musicology and dance research. Founded in London on September 22, 1947, it publishes the Yearbook for Traditional Music once a year, and a twice-yearly bulletin. Since 2005, its president has been Dr. Adrienne L. Kaeppler, curator of Oceanic Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution. The organization was previously known as The International Folk Music Council (IFMC). In 1949, it helped found the UNESCO International Music Council.

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Conferences

Since 1947, the ICTM has hosted annual, later biennial, conferences. In 2009, the site of the ICTM World Conference was Durban, South Africa, in 2011 it was St. John's Newfoundland, in 2013 Shanghai, China, and in 2015 it will be Astana, Kazakhstan.

Publications

  • Yearbook for Traditional Music (originally known as the Journal of the International Folk Music Council from 1949–1958)
  • Bulletin of the ICTM (originally known as Bulletin of the IFMC)
  • Presidents

  • Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco (2013-present)
  • Adrienne L. Kaeppler (2005-2013)
  • Krister Malm
  • Anthony Seeger
  • Erich Stockmann
  • Poul Rovsing Olsen
  • Klaus P. Wachsmann
  • Willard Rhodes
  • Zoltán Kodály
  • Jaap Kunst
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams, first president
  • References

    International Council for Traditional Music Wikipedia