Report on the 17th Meeting of the ICTM Study Group for Historical Sources of Traditional Music

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Stockholm (Sweden) 21 - 25 May 2008

The Study Group on Historical Sources in the International Council of Traditional Music was established in 1967 in order to search for historical sources in Ethnomusicology and to provide a working forum for interested colleagues. Thus far 16 meetings have already been held in different European countries; the 17th Meeting of the ICTM Study Group on Historical Sources of Traditional Music was held in Stockholm from May 21 - 25, 2008, thanks to an invitation by the Svenskt visarkiv, Centre for Swedish Folk Music and Jazz Research. The conference was made possible through the efforts of Ingrid Akesson and her colleagues in the Svenskt visarkiv and …