Jähnichen, Gisa (2022). ICTM Study Group on Musical Instruments. Anniversary Volume Celebrating the ICTM. Edited by Svanibor Pettan, Naila Ceribasic, and Don Niles. Ljubljana: University of Ljubljana Press, 349-354. (original) (raw)

2022, Anniversary Volume Celebrating the ICTM

The history of this very early ICTM study group on Musical Instruments cannot be looked at separately from the larger picture of the Council (ICTM = International Council for Traditional Music) and its development. Since musical instruments were a rather obvious topic of interest that combined all types of more or less substantiated knowledge on diverse peoples, it was fairly easy to establish this study group in the framework of what was then an international organization of professionals in the area of ethnomusicology, a freshly emerging discipline of the humanities at that time after WWII.