MINUTES of the Business Meeting The ICTM STUDY GROUP MUSIC AND MINORITIES Monday, August 28 2006 at Horizont Hotel, Golden Sands, Varna, Bulgaria The meeting, attended by participants in the Study Group meeting in Varna, was co-chaired 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. 2. Svanibor Pettan gave an introduction to the Study Group for the benefit of new members. He noted that members of the ICTM in good standing are eligible to join the Study Group. Reacting to the definition of minorities as it has been proposed in 1998 and presented at this meeting as part of the introduction, members suggested the following emendations: Minorities are “groups of people distinguishable from [instead of “distinguished from”] the dominant group for cultural, ethnic, social, religious, or economic reasons [instead of “out of cultural, ethnic, social, religious or economic reasons”]. Further, instead of the 1998 formulation: “The Study group will promote the music of minorities by means of research, documentation and interdisciplinary study, and will serve as a forum for cooperation among scholars of music and minorities by means of meetings, publications, and correspondence” the following was proposed: 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.” That the discussion of these proposed changes could be re-opened during the Final Discussion at the end of the meeting was agreed upon unanimously. 3. a) It was noted that the Study Group was very well represented at the ICTM conference in Sheffield, UK last summer.1 b) At the ICTM Colloquium on “Emerging Identities: Trans-Atlantic Perspectives” held at Wesleyan University, Connecticut, USA in May 2006 and hosted by Mark Slobin and Su Zheng, seven of the sixteen participants were Study Group members. c) In connection with the publication of Shared Musics and Minority Identities, the proceedings of the third meeting of the Music and Minorities Study Group, which had been formally presented at a separate session, it was announced that there will be a further announcement in the ICTM web page and in the next ICTM meeting. In response to a call for ideas on how to publicize the volume, it was suggested that reviews be solicited for publication in the Yearbook for Traditional Music, Ethnomusicology, and the Ethnomusicology Forum, among others. 4. The next Study Group business meeting will take place in Vienna during the ICTM World Conference scheduled for July 4-11, 2007. 5. Svanibor Pettan urged Study Group members to participate in the upcoming Vienna ICTM in 2007 particularly in panel formats. Thus far, Gisa Jähnichen, Dorit Klebe and Adriana Helbig have submitted proposals for panels. The deadline for submitting proposals is November 1, 2006 and the chairperson of the Programme Committee is Wim Van Zanten. For further information, refer to the ICTM Bulletin. 6. Zuzana Jurkova reiterated the invitation extended to the Study Group to meet in Prague in 2008. She proposed that the meeting take place the last week in May in conjunction with the world famous celebration of Roma culture that will then be taking place. One of the themes of the conference will therefore be dedicated to the Roma. Bruno Nettl will be the keynote speaker. Preliminary information on accommodations and the site for the conference were offered. For the rest of the themes for the meeting, a box is to be made available where members can drop suggestions for consideration at the Final Discussion. 7. Invitations for the 2010 meeting were solicited. Singapore was tentatively proposed by Larry Francis Hilarian. 8. Rosemary Statelova led the discussion on the publication of the proceedings of the Varna meeting. All of the approximately 60 papers will be included. Technical considerations—number of pages per article, the inclusion of a CD, the necessary permissions, copyrights, etc.—were mentioned. The deadline for the submission of manuscripts for publication was set for November 30, 2006. Two venues for publication were suggested: the Bulgarian Ethnomusicology Journal or Bulgarian Musicology. Ursula Hemetek then expressed the Study Group’s appreciation and gratitude to Rosemary Statelova and her assistants who were given a standing ovation. 9. Other matters: a) Svanibor Pettan reported on the meeting of the Board of the ICTM in Ljubljana and extended his invitation to the events planned at the time and scheduled to take place from September 21-25, 2006. b) A conference on “Urban Music in the Balkans” that will take place in Tirana, Albania from September 28 to October 1 was announced. The meeting was adjourned at 9:50 PM. 1 Among the Study Group members who presented papers or participated in panels were: Ardian Ahmedaja, Gerda Lechleitner, Naila Ceribasic, Anca Giurchescu, Marianne Bröcker, Alma Bejtullahu, Smaragdi Boura, Inna Naroditskaya, Sachiko Takiguchi, Gisa Jahnichen, Dorit Klebe, Jacek Piech, Hande Saglam, Alessandra Ciucci, Gerlinde Haid, Juniper Hill, Erica Haskell, Maria Escribano, Ursula Hemetek, Adelaida Reyes, John Morgan O’Connell, Zuzana Jurkova, Katalin Kovalcsik, Svanibor Pettan, Speranta Radulescu, Iren Kertesz-Wilkinson, Veronica Seidlova, Barbara Rose Lange, Christiane Fennesz-Juhasz. These do not include presenters who have become members recently and were not members at the time of the Sheffield conference. These names were not specified during the business meeting and are therefore not officially part of the minutes. --------------- ---------------------------------------- --------------- ----------------------------------------