International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance

A Non-Governmental Organization in Formal Consultative Relations with UNESCO

ICTMD Study Group on Music and Dance in the Turkic World

                           

 

5th Symposium of the Study Group, Almaty, April 2016
5th Symposium of the Study Group, Almaty, April 2016

Mission Statement

The Music and Dance in the Turkic World Study Group is dedicated to the practice, documentation, preservation, and dissemination of traditional music and dance as found throughout the wide area of the Turkic World, stretching from South Siberia to the shores of the Mediterranean and increasingly in diasporic locations elsewhere, comprises the art and music of numerous different ethnicities (Altai, Azerbaijanis, Balkars, Bashkirs, Chuvashes, Crimean Karaites, Dolgans, Gagauz, Karachays,  Karakalpaks, Kazakhs, Khakas, Krymchaks, Kyrgyz people, Nogais, Qashqai,  Shors, Tatars, Turkmens, Turks, Tuvans, Uyghurs, Uzbeks, and Yakuts, as well as ancient and medieval states such as Dingling, Bulgars, Chuban, Göktürks, Khazars,  Khiljis, Kipchaks, Kumans, Ottoman Turks, Seljuk Turks, Tiele, Timurids, Turgeshes, and possibly Huns, Tuoba, Wusun, and the Xiongnu). Today at a time of globalization and, for many countries, loosing identity, research and documentation music of the Turkic World helps to identify key issues of performance phenomenon allowing a better understanding of the vast Turkic World to emerge.

Contact details

ictmd.turkic@gmail.com

Chair

Prof. Dr Abdullah Akat

Istanbul University State Conservatory, Department of Musicology,

Maltepe/Istanbul, Turkey, Tel: +90 543 9016578, e-mail: abdullahakat@istanbul.edu.tr 

Vice-Chair

Prof. Dr Lala Huseynova

Vice-Rector of the Azerbaijan National Conservatory, Baku, Azerbaijan 

Tel: +994-50-354-35-46,  e-mail: lala-abi@mail.ru

Music Liaison

Assoc.Prof. Dr Galina Sychenko

President, Eurasia Archive named after Romano Mastromattei (Italy) / Novosibirsk, Russia

Tel: +39-39-21-279-251,  e-mail: sytchenko@mail.ru

Dance Liaison

Sashar Zarif

Director, The Institute for Embodied Wisdom, Canada / Iran

Tel: +1 416 450-4529,  e-mail: sashar@sashardance.com

Co-Secretaries

Assoc.Prof. Dr Valeria Nedlin 

Kazakh National Conservatory named after Kurmangazy

Tel. +7 707 353 99 25 email: leranedlin@gmail.com   

Prof. Dr Anna Oldfield

Coastal Carolina University

Tel. +1 (843) 349-6591 aoldfield@coastal.edu

Attachments: 
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10th Symposium of the ICTMD Study Group on Music and Dance in the Turkic World 22 - 25 May 2026, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Publications

  1. Sacred Knowledge: Schools or Revelation? Master-Apprentice System of Oral Transmission in the music of the Turkic Speaking world, Razia Sultanova (Ed), LAP, 2009, 124 pages, ISBN-13: 978-3838315584. /group/111/post/sacred-knowledge-schools-or-revelation-publication-details

Past Conferences and Symposia

Program of the 9th Joint Symposium with Global History of Music

Call for Proposals: 9th Joint Symposium "Echoes of Heritage: Navigating the Legacy of Music and Dance"

The ICTMD Study Groups on Music and Dance in the Turkic World and Global History of Music are excited to announce a joint symposium.

Programme: 8th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music of the Turkic-speaking World

Please see the attachment for the full text of the Programme

Call for papers: 8th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music of the Turkic-speaking World

Please see the attachment for the full text of the Call for Papers

Programme: 7th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music of the Turkic-speaking World

Please see the attachment for the full text of the Programme

 

Call for papers: 7th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music of the Turkic-speaking World

Please see the attachment for the full text of the Call for Papers.

The Encyclopaedia of Music Realities of Turkic-Speaking Peoples

Dear colleagues,

we would like to announce a new project entitled  “The Encyclopaedia of Music Realities of Turkic-Speaking Peoples”. The project in collaboration with Turksoy was initiated by the ICTM Study Group on Music of the Turkic-Speaking World and introduced/ approved  on 13th July 2019 at the SG business meeting during the 45th ICTM World Conference in Bangkok. We have a preliminary agreement with “Medina Publishing House” (Nizhny Novgorod-Moscow, Russia) to publish the Encyclopaedia in Russian, English and Turkish languages.

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