1. Name

The name of the organization is ICTMD National Committee of Greece (in short ICTMD Greece).

2. Objectives

The National Committee will support the study, documentation, safeguarding, sustainability and dissemination of traditional music, dance and performing arts including folk, popular, classical, urban, and other musical genres in Greece, the Greek diaspora, and of all musical cultures investigated by researchers based in Greece. The interests and objectives of the ICTMD National Committee of Greece are organized in three prongs: research methodologies, teaching pedagogies and community engagements. Those objectives are further presented in detail below:

• Documentation and dissemination of local and regional folk music and dance styles in Greece: ICTMD Greece will encourage the establishment and operation of audiovisual archives with open access to local communities.

• Support of research and practice of local music and dance in education and the community, including music schools, art schools, kindergartens, primary and secondary schools, as well as community projects, regional festivals and other local events.

• Gender Studies: ICTMD Greece will aim at highlighting the role of gender in local societies, past and present, drawing together differences and particularities located in contemporary urban and rural contexts.

• Education & apprenticeship: ICTMD Greece will promote new initiatives in music and dance education by considering the teaching and learning approaches developed in various orally transmitted musical traditions and local communities.

• Historical perspectives and decolonization: ICTMD Greece will support the awareness and exchange of ideas between histories of regional music / dance styles and contemporary cultural phenomena.

• Music Archaeology: focusing on sources of ancient Greek music and literature, the committee will create a framework for collaboration between the fields of music archaeology and ethnomusicology.

• Urban Popular Music: the committee will aim at fostering research on Greek urban popular music and dance styles (rebetika, etc.) and their functions in various localities and communities.

• Religious Music: the committee will support research and practice of Greek Orthodox ecclesiastical music (so-called Byzantine) and its relation to folk music and other musical traditions.

• Music, Violence and Restoration: ICTMD Greece will support initiatives of music and dance for peace-building, social bonding and cohesion among communities.

• Music and Politics: the committee intends to explore the appropriation of music and dance by political regimes as well as nationalism and injustice in past and present.

• Music and Migration: Greece is a country that has experienced migration of population for several reasons in past and recent times. ICTMD Greece will support the study of these phenomena in Greece as well as in the Greek diaspora.

• International collaboration: ICTMD Greece is interested in building rapport with other researchers and traditional music and dance committees around the world in order to pursue research projects and collaborative activities.

• ICTMD Greece will support performances in relation to research of music and dance cultural phenomena and will promote local events of traditional music and dance in the country.

• ICTMD Greece intends to support new perspectives in the context of music and dance studies, such as: cultural heritage, technology and digital culture, history and historiographies, musical archives, popular studies, cognitive ethnomusicology, applied ethnomusicology, eco-musicologies, performance studies, etc.

3. Functions and activities

The functions and activities of the ICTMD National Committee of Greece include, but are not limited to:

1. Organizing, co-organising and supporting symposia, conferences, and open lectures (on site, online or hybrid)
2. Publishing online reports related to the objectives of the ICTMD Greece
3. Cooperating with organizations and other relevant bodies and broadcast our activities
4. Connecting the scholars from the different disciplines in Greece
5. Collaborating with local authorities to encourage music and dance research and artistic activities in traditional settlements and the urban environments.

4. Language

The working language is Greek, but activities and communication in English are also welcome.

5. Membership

As discussed in the minutes of our meeting, the ICTMD National Committee of Greece decided that the members of the committee do not have any financial engagement. For special reasons and when needed, alternative sources of funding will be sought.

The members of the National Committee of Greece should also be members of the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTMD).

6. The leading team of the National Committee

1. The leading team of the Committee consist of a Chair, a Co-chair and a Secretary, all of whom are elected by the members of the National Committee of Greece every three years.
2. Nominations for officer positions for the leading team of the Committee will be made by at least one member of the committee. Members of the leading team of the Committee are elected for a three-year term and may be elected for a second term of three years.
3. New members in the National Committee of Greece will be approved and welcomed, provided that they are members of the ICTMD in good standing order and are proposed by two members of the National Committee. Those interested may submit their short CV and an open letter presenting the reasons for their interest in becoming members of the National Committee of Greece.
4. The leading Committee may appoint a substitute member to fill any vacancy that arises until the next meeting.
5. The leading Committee will meet at least four times each year on site or online.
6. An Annual General Meeting of the members of the National Committee of Greece will be held on site or online at a date and place determined by the leading Committee.

7. Alterations to the Constitution

Proposals for alterations to the constitution must be received by the Secretary in writing not less than two weeks before the Annual General Meeting. Proposals will be accepted, provided they are voted by the majority of the Committee.

Greece, 20 September 2022

• Chair: Plemmenos, John (Senior Researcher, Hellenic Folklore Research Centre, Academy of Athens, Greece) jplemmenos@hotmail.com
• Co-chair: Dionyssiou, Zoe (Associate Professor of Music Education, Department of Music Studies, Ionian University, Greece) dionyssiou@gmail.com
• Secretary: Konkouris, Theodore L. (Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, Department of Music Science & Art, University of Macedonia, Greece) konkouris@gmail.com

Members:

• Athanasopoulos, George (Researcher in Cognitive Ethnomusicology, Erich von Hornbostel Lab, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany) george.athanasopoulos@hu-berlin.de
• Chanta-Martin Natasa (Dance Anthropologist, Anasa Cultural Center/ Choreomundus Association, independent scholar) natasa.chanta.martin@gmail.com
• Delegos, Spiros (Musician-Ethnomusicologist-Music Teacher, Salaried Doctoral Researcher, Sibelius Academy Uniarts Helsinki) s_deleg@yahoo.gr