International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance

A Non-Governmental Organization in Formal Consultative Relations with UNESCO

ICTMD Study Group on Music Archaeology

Study Group Overview

The ICTM Study Group on Music Archaeology was founded in Seoul, South Korea, in 1981, on the occasion of the 26th World Conference of the Council. The ICTM Study Group on Music Archaeology 325 four founding members were (in alphabetical order) John Blacking, Ellen Hickmann, Mantle Hood, and Cajsa S. Lund. Without being officially recognized by the ICTM until the 27th World Conference held in New York (1983), the first international scholarly meeting of the study group was held in 1982 in Cambridge, UK. Between 1996 and 2003, the ICTM Study Group on Music Archaeology was left without a chair and was not active. In 2003, the archaeologist Julia L. J. Sanchez re-activated the group on the initiative of Anthony Seeger, then secretary general of the Council. The revival began with meetings in Los Angeles, California (2003). The ICTM Study Group on Music Archaeology developed over the years beyond a small circle of enthusiasts to encompass an international body of experts from numerous disciplines, including science and the arts. Today, its activities reflect the wide scope of music-archaeological research worldwide, benefitting from perspectives from a range of subjects, including newly emerging fields such as archaeoacoustics, but particularly encouraging both music-archaeological and ethnomusicological perspectives, as in the very early days of the study group. Download the attached files in order to know more about the Study Group history, goals, bibliography and past symposiums.

Current Administration and Study Group Contact

CHAIR: Raquel Jiménez Pasalodo (Universidad de Valladolid): raquel.jimenez@uva.es

SECRETARY: Daniela Castaldo (Università del Salento): daniela.castaldo@unisalento.it
 

Attachments: 
PDF icon Both-2022_ICTM Music Archaeology.pdf
PDF icon ICTM Meetings Conferences Symposia.pdf

Deadline extension: XVII SYMPOSIUM of the ICTMD Study Group on Music Archaeology, jointly organized with the ICTMD Study Group on Iconography of the Performing Arts

The deadline for abstract submission to the XVII SYMPOSIUM of the ICTMD Study Group on Music Archaeology, jointly organized with the ICTMD Study Group on Iconography of the Performing Arts: "Musical Material Culture as Heritage: Study, Conservation, Digitalization and Education", that will take place at  the Universidad de Valladolid (Spain) on September 2024 have been extended.

New deadline for submission of proposals is 25 April 2024. 

XVII SYMPOSIUM of the ICTMD Study Group on Music Archaeology jointly organized with the ICTMD Study Group on Iconography of the Performing Arts

The ICTMD Study Group on Music Archaeology, the ICTMD Study Group on Iconography of the Performing Arts, and the University of Valladolid are announcing the XVII SYMPOSIUM of the ICTMD Study Group on Music Archaeology, jointly organized with the ICTMD Study Group on Iconography of the Performing Arts: "Musical Material Culture as Heritage: Study, Conservation, Digitalization and Education".

Universidad de Valladolid, 25, 26 and 27 September 2024

April 8-12, 2013, Guatemala - Crossing Borders: Musical Change and Exchange through Time

The XIII. Symposium of the ICTM Study Group for Music Archaeology will be held in Guatemala City, on 8-12 April 2013. The topic is “Crossing Borders: Musical Change and Exchange through Time” (for the details, see the call for abstracts here). This conference is co-organised by Matthias Stöckli and Arnd Adje Both, and hosted by the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala.

Sept 19-24, 2011, Valladolid, Spain - Sound and Ritual in Music Archaeology: Bridging Material and Living Cultures

XII. Congress of the ICTM Study Group for Music Archaeology
University of Valladolid, Spain
 
Ritual aspects of sound production are frequently touched in music-archaeological studies, but seldom the main focus of research. Ritual  behaviour is often reflected in material culture, but the individual meaning

September 23-25, 2009, New York - Drawing on the Musical Past: Music Iconology, Instrument Making and Experimental Playing in Music Archaeology

3rd Meeting/11th Congress of the ICTM Study Group for Music Achaeology
Joint conference of the Research Center for Music Iconography
City University of New York, The Graduate Center

 

Contact the Study Group Chair

For information please contact the Study Group Chair Dr. Arnd Adje Both:

Dr Arnd Adje Both
Korsoerer Str. 3
10437 Berlin
GERMANY

e-mail: adje@zedat.fu-berlin.de
 

Meeting July 2007, Vienna

Business meeting held on 9 July 2007, at the 39th ICTM World Conference in Vienna.
The business meeting was held to elect a new chair and discuss future activities of the study group. It was chaired by Stephen Wild and Adje Both and attended by 14 colleagues who expressed their interest in this growing research field.

Zdravko Blazekovic, Bernd Brabec de Mori, Tinaig Clodoré-Tissot, Cornelia Dragusin, Jacqueline Ekgren, Gerlinde Haas, Fang Jianjun, Li Mei, Ivona Opetscheska Tatarchevska, Matthias Stöckli, Pei Ju Tsai, Liu Yong, Guan-Da Yuan
Mirjana Zakic-Belgrade

Meeting April 2003, Los Angeles

The Music Archaeology Study Group of ICTM (the International Council of Traditional Music) will hold its study group meeting April 25-27, 2003 on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles. Anyone is welcome to attend.

 

GENERAL INFORMATION:
The study group is newly re-organized, and this will be the first study group meeting. The group will complement existing groups that hold meetings in Europe and other parts of the world, with the goal of increasing interaction and information exchange among those with similar interests.