The eighteenth ICTM Colloquium took place at Corpus Christi College Cambridge, 20-23 July, doubling as an interim meeting of the Study Group on Anthropology of Music in Mediterranean Cultures. The Colloquium was sponsored by a UK-based charitable foundation (whose policy is to remain anonymous) with additional support provided by Cambridge University's Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, the Faculty of Music and Corpus Christi College. The programme committee comprised Philip Bohlman, John O'Connell and Marcello Sorce Keller (Study Group Chair) with Salwa Castelo Branco and Ruth Davis as Programme Co-Chairs.
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