The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #121025   Message #2847934
Posted By: Jack Blandiver
23-Feb-10 - 03:20 PM
Thread Name: In Praise of Traddies!
Subject: RE: In Praise of Traddies!
Was aware that IFMC had re-named - didn't know they'd re-defined - enlighten please?

I keep meaning to join the ICTM to see what's what, but I'm spurred on by their aims which are to further the study, practice, documentation, preservation and dissemination of traditional music, including folk, popular, classical and urban music, and dance of all countries. So folk is still in there - but popular, classical and urban are coming under the heading of traditional which is pretty much what I'm on about anyway. These days the ICTM is very much about ethnomusicology which covers pretty much everything (I had a friend who did her post grad ethnomusicology thesis on Barber Shop Singing in Hartlepool). So we're back to music in context, however so derived or otherwise defined. With that in mind, it's interesting to look through the contents of the IFMC / ICTM yearbooks & journals which you might access here:

http://www.ictmusic.org/ICTM/ictm/journal_index.html