International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance

A Non-Governmental Organization in Formal Consultative Relations with UNESCO

ICTM Study Group on Sources and Archives for Music and Sound Studies

The Study Group on Sources and Archives for Music and Sound Studies [mus.a] is dedicated to discussing music, sound and dance sources. It focuses on any kind of source, both digital and non-digital (e.g. audio and visual recordings, manuscripts, edited texts, images, musical scores, iconography, films, etc.) and seeks to stimulate transdisciplinary debates on those sources within archival conditions.

The aim is to examine the diverse ways of generating, archiving, classifying, analyzing and editing historical sources concerning music, sound and dance practices. In other words, the Study Group encourages the development of an epistemology of the sources. The following examples are welcome topics: theoretical and ideological frameworks; institutional politics; academic and non-academic archiving processes; the history of archiving; archive as an agent of social transformation; social memory and politics of patrimonialization; tangible and intangible heritage; postcolonial and decolonial approaches; power relationships; aesthetic legacies; legal and access policies; archiving and gender perspectives; technologies of archiving; work routines in archiving; digital humanities; amongst others.     

 

Co-Chairs: Gerda Lechleitner & Miguel A.García

Secretary: Susana Sardo

Contact

Co-Chair: Gerda Lechleitner
Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Liebiggasse 5
1010 Vienna
AUSTRIA
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/phonogrammarchiv/
gerda.lechleitner@oeaw.ac.at

 

Co-Chair: Miguel A. García
University of Buenos Aires
National Scientific and Technical Research Council
Argentina

 

 

Secretary: Susana Sardo
Universidade de Aveiro / INET-md

 

Campus de Santiago
3810 193 Aveiro
PORTUGAL
http://www.inetmd.pt/
ssardo@ua.pt

Call for Papers: 25th Symposium of the ICTMD Study Group on Sources and Archives for Music and Sound Studies

It is with great enthusiasm that we invite members to participate in the 25th Symposium of our Study Group scheduled to take place in Berlin from October 8th to 12th, 2024. The event will be hosted at the Humboldt Forum and the Humboldt University.

Call for Papers: 24th Meeting of the Study Group on Historical Sources (Brussels, October 18-22, 2022)

We are happy to announce the 24th Meeting of the Study Group on Historical Sources by invitation of Rémy Jadinon (ICTM Belgium) at Musical Instrument Museum (Brussels), Africa Museum (Tervuren), and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven – Belgium,  October 18-22, 2022

 

 

Program of the 23th Meeting of the Study Group on Historical Sources, Almaty, Kazakstan | 3-6 November 2021

The 23th Meeting of the Study Group on Historical Sources, took place in Kazakstan, Almaty, at the Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory, between 3 and 6 November 2021, in a hybrid format (online and in-person). 

22nd Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Historical Sources of Traditional Music

The 22nd Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Historical Sources of Traditional Music will take place in Budapest, Hungary, April 12-16 2018. A Call for Contributions will appear on this site presently.

 

 

New book: Historical Sources of Ethnomusicology in Contemporary Debate

The Study Group on Historical Sources of Traditional Music is happy to present a new publication: Historical Sources of Ethnomusicolgy in Contemporary Debate edited by Susanne Ziegler, Ingrid Akesson, Gerda Lechleitner and Susana Sardo. Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2017. Hardback published, e-book in process.

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