MINUTES of the Business Meeting of the ICTM Study Group MUSIC AND MINORITIES July 10, 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. Business meetings of the Study Group are held every year to coincide with the ICTM general meetings, and during Study Group meetings that are held on alternate years. Membership lists were distributed along with the agenda for this meeting and the minutes from last year’s meeting in Varna, Bulgaria. Professor Hemetek noted that membership in the study group requires membership in good standing in the ICTM. As of the date of the meeting, there were 249 members. Music and Minorities is the second largest Study Group of the ICTM. 2. The minutes from the last meeting were approved. 3. Rosemary Statelova who organized the Varna meeting reported on the publication of the proceedings. Some member-participants withheld publication for reasons such as copyright difficulties. The publication will therefore contain approximately 90% of the papers read in Varna. Bulgarian Musicology will be the publisher and Angela Rodel will take charge of the editorial work. With the publication of the Varna proceedings, all the Music and Minorities Study Group proceedings—four in all—will have been published. 4. Publications of Study Group members were announced: Minority: Construct or Reality? Zuzana Jurkova, Blanka Soukupova, Hedvika Novotna, and Peter Salner, eds. (Bratislava: ZNG PRINT, 2007) Cultural Diversity in the Urban Area. Explorations in Urban Ethnomusicology, Ursula Hemetek and Adelaida Reyes, eds. (Institut fur Volksmusikforschung und Ethnomusicologie) Balkan Popular Culture (forthcoming from Scarecrow Press; expected to be available at the SEM meeting in Columbus, Ohio in October, 2007.) Minority in a Multi-ethnic Context: The Jews of the Region of Botsani and their Party Music, and “Festive Musics of the Jews from the Botosani Region” (“Muzici de sarbatoare ale evreilor din tinutul Botosani”)by Speranta Radulescu (Ethnophonie CD-014, Bucharest, Romania: Alexandru Tzigara Samurcas Cultural Foundation) . “Frelik, Sher, un Khusidl…” Brass Bands from Podolia, Klezmer and other Jewish Music. Collected by Isaak Loberan. (= Field Recordings form the Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Vol. 1) Vienna 2006, EX-PHA 001 5. Presentation by Zuzana Jurkova on the Music and Minorities Conference in Prague to be held from May 24 to June 1, 2008 (Power Point materials prepared by Veronika Seidlova). The venue will be the International Baptist Theological Seminary Campus (www.ibts.cz) which provides conference facilities and accommodations, breakfast and lunch at 37 euro per person per day. For the first time, a Music and Minorities Study Group meeting will have a keynote address which will be delivered by Bruno Nettl. 6. Topics or themes for the meeting were discussed. A list of those that had been proposed in Varna were distributed to which the following were proposed: Roma music (suggested by the local organizer) Methodology Representation of minority musics in the mass media and in the marketplace; Cultural Policy and Safeguarding Minority Musics Music and Conflict Musical cooperation and understanding Ideas, Perspectives, and Research in Progress Formats were discussed: roundtables, panels, individual papers, etc. The Organizing Committee will have the prerogative to finalize themes and formats. The Programme Committee will consist of the officers of the Study Group, Zuzana Jurkova as local organizer and Naila Ceribasic.. The deadline for submission of abstracts will be December 15, 2007. Submissions are to be sent to Ursula Hemetek. Those whose abstracts are accepted will be notified by January 15, 2008. 6. For the meeting for 2010 which will be the 10th anniversary of the Study Group, Bussakorn Sumrongthong extended an invitation to meet in Chieng Mai, Thailand. She showed some photographs of the venue. 7 Announcement: Velika Stojkova Serafimorska announced that one of the themes for the conference in Macedonia which will take place from September 19-23, 2007 is Music and Dance of Minorities. 8. The meeting was adjourned at 9:30. Respectfully submitted, Adelaida Reyes