Още един поглед към 39-тата конференция на ICTM
Yet Another View on the 39th ICTM Conference

Summary/Abstract: The largest international ICTM conference in Vienna turned out to be a huge challenge for me, both emotionally and professionally. Austria’s multicultural heritage was the particular focus of the concerts organized especially for conference participants. Academic presentations and discussions were fleshed out with an abundant amount of music. This live musicmaking, together with the musical documentary films, created a colorful parallel line in a conference program already full of events. The organization of the Balkan panel “History and Perspectives on National Ethnomusicologies and Ethnochoreologies in the Balkans” in two sessions on June 6, 2007, which some of the Bulgarian representatives took part in, was also a provocation. The basic goal was to identify events, facts and individuals who were key to the development of each of the national schools presented. In this way each of the represented countries’ understanding of its own history was outlined in parallel. This joint Balkan project showed that dialogue and collaboration between scholars from Southeastern Europe is possible, even if different historical pasts and differing interpretations of that past sometimes lead to divergent viewpoints. The Balkan panel appeared as one among many strongly represented national and regional cultures, which constituted one of the focuses of the conference program. During the course of the conference, the exceptionally active research on Chinese traditions presented in various sessions was striking. In connection with the protection and preservation of nonmaterial culture, questions were raised regarding the reconstruction of instruments, manuscripts, genres, and performance practices, while established concepts such as “tradition” and “folklore” were rethought. Participants discussed manifestations of the national, the global, and the transnational and the mutual interactions between them, as well as the effects of immigration on music and the development of autochthonous minorities. It was primarily younger scholars who devoted particular attention to the media and new technologies in their research.

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