ICTM STUDY GROUP ON MUSIC AND MINORITIES

Minutes of the Business Meeting
July 22, 2010
Hanoi, Vietnam

	The meeting was called to order by Ursula Hemetek and Svanibor Pettan, chairs, at 11:00 AM.

	Agenda Item #1: Introductory remarks briefly reviewed the history of the Study Group, its acceptance by the ICTM in 1997, the first business meeting in Hiroshima in 1999 and the current membership which stands at 291. 
		Apologies for absence from ICTM president, Adrienne Kaeppler, and Secretary General Stephen Wild were noted.

	2.  An emendation to the minutes of the meeting in Prague in 2008 was made as follows: “There have been few nominations, all of which suggested re-election of the board. Ursula Hemetek (chair) Svanibor Pettan (vice-chair) and Adelaida Reyes (secretary) accepted the nomination. The board was re-elected.”
	The minutes were approved as emended.

	3.  a) Zuzana Jurkova reported on the 2008 meeting in Prague, and specifically on the volume containing papers read at the meeting. Edited by Zuzana Jurkova and Lee Bidgood and including a CD mastered by Gerda Lechleitner, the volume was published within a record 9 months after the meeting. For the first time, the papers were refereed and hence, not all the papers presented at the meeting were included in the volume. All, however, were published online. The volume is available on order. Copies of the volume were sent to three or four journals for review. 

		For the first time, a keynote speaker, Bruno Nettl, was invited to address the meeting. Illness prevented his coming, but his paper was read by Ursula Hemetek.

	    b) Svanibor Pettan reported on the ICTM programme in Durban, South Africa where he represented the Study Group on Music and Minorities of which he is vice-president. He also spoke on the preparations then being made for the meeting in Hanoi at which he, Kjell Skyllstad, and Huib Schippers along with their counterparts in Vietnam, Tran Quang Hai and Le Van Toan were actively engaged. 

	    c) Reviews of published Proceedings from the Study Group meetings have been published in Ethnomusicology and World of Music.

		Gisa Jaehnichen suggested a publications list; Ursula Hemetek mentioned a website list and a link; Svanibor Pettan noted a new ICTM website which features the first publication of the Study Group for Applied Ethnomusicology, Applied Ethnomusicology. Historical and Contemporary Approaches, edited by Klisala Harrison, Elizabeth MacKinlay and Svanibor Pettan. 

	4.  Membership status of participants in Study Group symposia was clarified. ICTM membership is required of all presenters, and while membership in the Study Group is not strictly enforced, it is strongly recommended.

	5.  Attention was drawn to the themes of the upcoming ICTM Conference in St. Johns, Newfoundland and participation from Study Group members in the form of individual papers and  panel presentations was encouraged. Members were reminded of the September 7 deadline for submission of abstracts/proposals. These are to be sent to Salwa El-Shawan Castelo Branco of Universidade Nova in Lisbon.
	
		Leila Qashu announced that student arrangements for accommodations were being made to make attendance at the ICTM meeting more affordable.

		Ursula Hemetek urged students to apply for the Barbara Smith grant when submitting an abstract.

	6. A letter of invitation from Essica Marks to hold the next Music and Minorities Study Group meeting in Zefat, Israel was read. Discussion followed at which transportation issues from Tel Aviv to the conference site as well as political issues that could restrict entry into Israel from some countries were brought up.  Although conditional acceptance was suggested, no vote was taken. 

	7.  Themes and “talking circles” for the next meeting of the Music and Minorities Study Group were proposed. These included:
		The concept of music in minority studies
		Theory and methodology in studies of music and dance
		Power balance between minority groups	
		Different approaches to specific topics
		Integration and intercultural understanding through musical practices
		Crossing social, cultural and regional boundaries through musical practices 
		Minorities within minorities: The role of music in the power balance

	    Larry Hilarian proposed that other suggestions be sent to Ursula Hemetek for consideration.

	8.  For papers presented at the Hanoi symposium, edited manuscripts to be submitted for publication are requested by December 30, 2010. Such manuscripts are limited to 10 pages.

	9.  The gratitude of the Study Group was extended to the local organizers—to Le Van Toan and his whole team—for their extraordinary efforts to make the Hanoi symposium, the first outside Europe, a success.  Le Van Toan acknowledged and responded to the thanks. 
	     Kjell Skyllstad, speaking for the Norwegian government and the Norwegian Transposition Program which, with the Vietnamese Institute for Musicology sponsored the Symposium, announced that funding from the Norwegian government will support the study of minority cultures in Vietnam for two years and possibly ten. He proposed a map of endangered musics in parallel to UNeSCO’s map of endangered languages.
	    Dae-Cheol Sheen, on behalf of the Academy of Korean Studies, extended an invitation to a conference of the Korean Study Group on the Music of East Asia scheduled to take place in August 2010. 
	    Svanibor Pettan announced the meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology from November 11 to 14, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. He also expressed his wish that there be more contact between Vietnamese and other Study Group members.	

	The Assembly adjourned at 12:30 P.M.

Adelaida Reyes





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