Fwd: New Study Group -- Request for Endorsement of Mission Statement and Affirmation of Executive Board

[Marcia Ostashewski]

Dear colleagues - hoping you are all well, healthy and safe. At the recommendation of our dear colleague and friend Monique Ingalls, I am sharing with you news of a new ICTM Study Group in-the-making. As one of the proposed new Executive Committee members, I am reaching out to ask whether we might be able to add your name in support of the initiative. And perhaps you might have other colleagues you would recommend I reach out to (or you would share this email/information with)?

With my kindest regards, and thanks,

Marcia

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From: Binford, Hilde <binf...@moravian.edu>
Date: Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 11:02 AM
Subject: New Study Group -- Request for Endorsement of Mission Statement and Affirmation of Executive Board
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Dear Colleagues,

 

It has been just over two weeks since we all met virtually for the symposium on Music - Religion - Spirituality.  We are now working on the formal request to form a new Study Group on Sacred and Spiritual Sounds and Practices.  At the end of the symposium, many of us contributed ideas to the mission statement, and a final version is attached to this e-mail.  

 

At the symposium, ICTM President Svanibor Pettan called for volunteers to serve in an Executive Committee for the new SG. Following a discussion among the four volunteers and President Pettan, we proposed the following Executive Committee. We ask for your approval. 

 

Irene Markoff, Co-Chair

Marcia Ostashewski, Co-Chair

Daniel Avorgbedor, Vice Chair

Hilde Binford, Secretary

 

The length of the mandates of the executives is up to us. In the past, elections were linked to the SG business meetings at either world conferences or symposia. Now the Secretariat can do it online for any SG and at any time. We suggest that the inaugural Executive Committee serve in their roles for three years; the length of Executive Committee mandates can later be regulated (the same or different length) with an internal document.

 

The Executive committee will represent the Study-Group-in-the-making through the process of endorsement by the ICTM Executive Board and facilitate our first official Symposium.  (For more information, please see http://ictmusic.org/memoranda/memorandum-ictm-study-groups).  We are also hoping to have our first official Symposium in August of 2023, pending funding and logistics, at which time we would also hold elections for the various positions on a three-year basis.  

 

We are hoping that you can help us move forward in two ways.

1.  Endorse the Mission Statement (see attached document)

2.  Affirm the Executive Committee as listed above

 

Please respond directly to Hilde Binford (hbin...@moravian.edu) before September 21, so that she can add your names to the document.  If you have serious concerns, please do let us know. Our aim is for the mission statement to be open, inclusive, and non-biased. 

 

With thanks,

 

Irene Markoff, Co-Chair

Marcia Ostashewski, Co-Chair

Daniel Avorgbedor, Vice Chair

Hilde Binford, Secretary

 

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Hilde Binford, PhD

Associate Professor, Music History

t: 610-861-1650, c:703-597-7170

binf...@moravian.edu

Music Department

Moravian University

1200 Main St., Bethlehem, PA. 18020 

  

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Marcia Ostashewski, PhD

Director, The Centre for Sound Communities

Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology

Cape Breton University

(902) 563-1696

PO Box 5300, 1250 Grand Lake Rd.

Sydney, Nova Scotia

B1P 6L2

soundcommunities.org | @CBU_Sound

I respectfully acknowledge that I live, work and play in Mi'kma'ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi'kmaw People. This territory is covered by the "Treaties of Peace and Friendship" which Mi'kmaw and Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) people first signed with the British Crown in 1725. The treaties did not deal with surrender of lands and resources. They recognized Mi'kmaw and Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) title and established rules for what was to be an ongoing relationship between nations.

[Jan Protopapas PhD Ethnomusicology, M.A. Education, B.A. South Asian Studies]

Thank you. I heartily endorse the mission statement as well as the executive board members. 

Dr. Jan Protopapas


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