some facts about the international music council imc

Some Facts about the International Music Council IMCAuthor(s): Henning Bro RasmussenSource: Fontes Artis Musicae, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Juli-September 1983), pp. 138-141Published by: International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres(IAML)Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23505567 .

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Some Facts about the International Music Council IMC

Henning Bro Rasmussen (Denmark)*

During the years immediately after World War II, the establishing of organizations for in

ternational co-operation went swiftly — also in the field of music. The following is an attempt

to give an account of the International Music Concil. What is IMC? Who makes the decisions

within IMC? What happens under IMC's auspices?

UN, UNESCO, IMC

In 1945, United Nations was formed. In connection with UN, the separate body UNESCO

was created as the UN's organization for education, science, and culture. Just four years

later, in 1949, IMC was established by UNESCO as a non-political body, independent of gov ernments, with a consultative status towards UNESCO. Thus IMC's task is to act as

UNESCO's agent within the field of music. Here the IMC must try to reach the goals which

have been set for UNESCO's work.

IMC's objects

For a closer look at the objects the IMC must pursue, IMC's Statutes have the following 9 paragraphs: Main objects of the Council are:

1. To strengthen cooperation between music organizations, both national and international.

* The author is a member of IMC's Legal Commission.

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2. To encourage the establishment of new international organizations in fields of music

where none exists.

3. To encourage the establishment in all countries of associations of music organizations and

the establishment of national committees.

4. To encourage and coordinate the organization of musical congresses, festivals, competi tions and meetings of experts, both regional and international, in cooperation with the

organizations that are members of IMC.

5. To facilitate the dissemination of musical material and the exchange of persons and

groups. 6. To examine proposals submitted to it in whatever domain of musical activity. 7. To study the social and economic status of musicians and of professional and amateur

music societies.

8. To encourage the inclusion of all forms of music in all levels of education and to promote the exchange of views upon the various methods of musical instruction.

9. To promote research and documentation of music and musical life, past and present,

throughout the world.

Membership

IMC is organized in a democratic fashion. The Statutes of the Council state that the circle

of members must consist of four categories: 1. International music organizations which represent one or several special fields within

music or musical life:

Members within this category are at present:

ISCM International Society for Contemporary Music

IMS International Musicological Society IFJM International Federation of the "Jeunesses Musicales"

ICTM International Council for Traditional Music (formerly International Folk Music Council)

ICPSM International Confederation of Popular Societies of Music

IAML International Association of Music Libraries

IFM International Federation of Musicians

ISME International Society for Music Education

IMZ International Music Centre EFYC European Federation of Young Choirs

FIMC Federation of International Music Competitions EAMF European Association of Concert Managers IJF International Jazz Federation

ICA International Confederation of Accordeonists

EAMF European Association of Music Festivals

ICFFO International Council of Folklore Festival Organizations IFFO International Federation of Festival Organizations (of Light Music)

The above have each one vote at IMC's general assembly. Additionally, a number of as

sociated institutes etc. have special relations to IMC, but no vote at the general assembly:

Musicians International Mutual Aid Fund

International Institute for Comparative Music Studies and Documentation

International Federation of Producers of Phonograms and Videograms "Music and Tomorrow's Public"

International Institute for Audio-Visual Communication and Cultural Development

Inter-American Music Council

2. The music councils of individual countries are considered ordinary, voting members.

At the moment 59 countries are members of IMC.

3. A third category of members consists of individual members, i.e. musical personalities

whose international standing and efforts for the international musical liaisons make it impor

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tant to incorporate them in IMC's work. Individual members for the election period 1981—3

are: Leo Brouwer (Cuba), Sir Frank Callaway (Australia), Dimiter Christoff (Bulgaria), Pierre Colombo (Switzerland), Eskil Hemberg (Sweden), André Jurres (Holland), Lucrecia R. Kasilag (Philippines), Shigeo Kishibe (Japan), Egon Kraus (FRG), Wolfgang Lesser (GDR), John Norton (UK), John Ritchie (New Zealand), Gunther Schuller (USA).

4. The last member category consists of honorary members. These are personalities who, because of their undeniable importance in international musical life deserve such extraordi

nary recognition as is an honorary membership of IMC. On the list of honorary members —

at present 21 names - are artists like Kabalevskij (USSR), Krenek (Austria), Menuhin (USA), Penderecki (Poland), Shankar (India), Sutherland (Australia), Szeryng (Mexico). Honorary members have no vote in the general assembly.

IMC's executive committee

Every second year — in the uneven years

- IMC's general assembly is held. Here an executive committee is elected and a programme of activities for the two years to come

agreed upon. IMC's last general assembly was held in the autumn of 1981 in Budapest. The next one, the 20th, will take place September 28—30, 1983, in Stockholm. In Budapest, the

following were elected to the executive committee for 1981—3:

Barry Brook (USA), president Munir Bashir (Iraq), vice-president Ladislav Mokry (Czechoslavakia), vice-president Marios Nobre (Brazil), vice-president Gottfried Scholz (Austria), secretary general Jacques Masson-Forestier (France), treasurer Poul Jörgensen (Denmark) J.H. Kwabena Nketia (Ghana) Tibor Sarai (Hungary) Jan Steszewski (Poland) Tran Van Khe (Vietnam) Vassili Zagorski (USSR)

Each member of the executive committee has one vote in the general assembly. The day-to-day management of the office at the UNESCO centre in Paris is taken care of

by an executive secretary. From the establishing of the Council in 1949 until the general assembly 1981, the functions of the executive secretary were carried out by Jack Bornoff

(England). Since his retirement, dr. phil. Nils Wallin, Sweden, is the executive secretary.

IMC's World Music Week 1983

In the following, a brief account of IMC arrangements to be held in Stockholm 1983 is

given. Firstly, the IMC general assembly will take place, and participation will be for regis tered delegates only. However: additionally, IMC organizes a 5th World Music Week Octo ber 1-6, which can be attended by all those interested.

Because of music personalities from all over the world visiting Stockholm for the IMC gen eral assembly, the Swedish musical community headed by the composer Eskil Hemberg has

planned a magnificent presentation of the state of Swedish music to-day, as well as the con sideration, in suitable groups, of current problems in musical life.

There will be a large number of concerts and opera performances in the Operahuset, in the Berwaldhallen, in churches and castles, and there will be lunchtime concerts including among other things jazz, traditional music, and music of the third world. Exhibitions in the Kulturhuset, Musikhistorisk Museum, Kungl. Musikaliska Akademien, the Swedish MIC and at several other venues will deal with Swedish music of older and more recent origin.

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The main exphasis in the Music Week will, however, be on three greater undertakings:

1. a presentation October 4-6 of music education in Swedish municipal music schools, a

special undertaking which has echoed widely also into Danish music education.

2. a symposium October 3-6 on "Music and modern media", first and foremost radio,

videograms (including television and films) and phonograms (including records, tapes, cassette tapes etc.). If possible, laser beam technique will be demonstrated.

3. a musicological seminar October 5—7 focusing on

a.research into music & the brain

b.the problems surrounding the amalgamating of cultures as we know it to-day. Here it is

planned to deal with encounters between Western Countries and the music of other

cultures

c.l9th century music as documented and nurtured in contacts between Nordic countries

and the musical centres Leipzig and Dresden.

ERG — European Regional Group

Under the IMC's auspices there is one more organization of interest for us in our part of

the world, namely the European Regional Group, ERG.

The ERG is based on an agreement signed in Copenhagen 1974 by 18 countries and later

adopted by several others, and has as its purpose to further musical relations and co-opera tion within Music between European countries. ERG will endeavour to implement this by -

exchange of information and of records, tapes, scores (mainly of new music), publications

of a musicological and music education related nature, and of other publications of a sup

posedly wider European interest -

inviting study groups to visit with the purpose of giving participants a deeper knowledge of special fields, f.i. contemporary music, music teaching, musicology, musical organiza

tions, projects around music in future society, etc. -

arranging regular meetings of the group.

Succeeding ERG's activities a number of bilateral agreements concerning music have been

adopted by European countries.

In September 1982, the ERG held its general assembly and connected with that a confer

ence on "Chamber Music Theatre". This was held in connection with the Ârhus Festival

1982, Denmark.

The World of Music

Finally it should be mentioned that IMC publishes the journal "The World of Music". Nor

mally its topics are of an ethnomusicological nature. Vol. XXV, no. 2,1982 (published in the

summer of 1982) has a number of articles about music in Latin America. Additionally, each

issue has reviews of books and records and an IMC bulletin. Subscription can be obtained

by writing to: Edition Heinrichshofen, P.O. Box 620, D-2940 Wilhelmshaven.

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