International Council for Traditional Music files from the 1960s, 1948-1990

Component identifier:

Series 4

Content Summary:

The series contains files (mostly correspondence) that relate to the business of the Council, in particular, conferences held and publications produced. A significant number of files relate to the Council's support of radio broadcasting and feature programmes. There are also general correspondence files from the period.

This series contains original correspondence from Ralph Vaughan Williams (Founding President, 1949-1958) and Zoltan Kodaly (President 1969-1970). Also in this series is original correspondence from T. G. H. Strehlow.

This series is made up of several sporadic and disordered alphabetic sequences of files that were held from the 1970s onwards as '1960s files'. The Presidency and Headquarters moved from London to North America ? in 19??, and from there to Australia in 2005. During these moves, some files that may have been no longer required for ongoing Council business were added to separate sequences. Also, possibly during storage or packing, sequences had become disordered. During processing by the National Library (2007), separate, disordered sequences were merged into one roughly alphabetic sequence. Labels that had been applied over initial file labelling may have become dislodged and some labels on file folders do not indicate accurately the contents therein.

Immediate source of acquisition:

In 2005, the Secretariat moved to the School of Music at the Australian National University. The move of the Council's records was co-ordinated by the immediate past Secretary General Professor Anthony Seeger (Department of Ethnomusicology, University of California Los Angeles UCLA) and the incoming Secretary General, Dr Stephen Wild (School of Music Australian National University ANU). The International Council for Traditional Music donated its records to the National Library in 2006.

Names:

International Council for Traditional Music

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