International Council for Traditional Music
A Non-Governmental Organization in Formal Consultative Relations with UNESCO
ICTM Study Group on Music, Gender and Sexuality
Mission Statement:
The ICTM Study Group on Music and Gender seeks to promote the growth of insight and understanding of gender as a critical factor in social interaction and thereby contribute meaningful theoretical dimensions to any study of musical culture.
Objectives (adopted at its second meeting at the Freie Universität in West Berlin on July 27-29, 1987):
A gender balanced view of musical and dance activities is required since our work produces documents which in the future will be a source for historians and other scholars. Towards this end, we will:
- Encourage understanding of gender in terms of the roles it plays in societies.
- Stimulate critical evaluation of gender roles within our discipline.
- Identify basic lacunae in the areas of music and dance cross-culturally.
- Expand the methodological and theoretical bases for data collection and provide a forum for the presentation and interpretation of new material.
- Publish and disseminate research findings.
Contact:
Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1
1030 Vienna
Austria
koelbl-m@mdw.ac.at
School of Arts, Level 9
Sunway University
5, Jalan University
Bandar Sunway
47500 Selangor
Malaysia
rachelo@sunway.edu.my
Department of Musicology
Georg-August University Göttingen
Kurze Geismarstraße 1
37073 Göttingen
Germany
rasika.ajotikar@phil.uni-goettingen.de
History
Barbara L. Hampton with Pirkko Moisala 1985
Past Chairs
1985-1987: Barbara L. Hampton and Jane Mink Rossen
1987-1993: Marcia Herndon and Suzanne Ziegler
1993-1997: Marcia Herndon and Pirkko Moisala
1997-1999: Pirkko Moisala
1999-2000: Pirkko Moisala and Carol Babiracki
2000-2005: Carol Babiracki and Fiona Magowan
2005-2013: Fiona Magowan and Nina Tshishvili
2013-2015: Barbara L. Hampton
2015-2019: Barbara L. Hampton and Marko Kölbl
2019-ongoing: Marko Kölbl, Rachel Ong, Rasika Ajotikar
The next Symposium of the Study Group on Music, Gender and Sexuality will take place at the Music Academy Zagreb, Croatia in September 2021. The exact dates will be issued soon. Depending on the development of the COVID19-pandemic, the conference might also take place in a virtual format.
The Operating Procedures will be accessible online soon!