International Institute for Traditional Music
The International Institute for Traditional Music ( IITM , English: International Institute for Traditional Music ) was a non-university research and cultural institution in 1963 in West Berlin was founded and existed until the 1996th In 1965 the institute was named International Institute for Comparative Music Studies and Documentation (IICMSD, English: International Institute for Comparative Music Studies and Documentation ) and was renamed in 1991. It was founded with a donation from the Ford Foundation , later financing was taken over by the State of Berlin. The institute was located in a villa on Winkler Strasse in Berlin-Grunewald .
history
The IITM published The World of Music magazine and a series of books. The employees also edited sound carriers and organized concerts and festivals. From its founding in 1963 to 1994, the institute organized 30 symposia and was the publisher of 170 recordings and 100 books. Most of the sound carriers were released in cooperation with the International Council for Traditional Music, a subsidiary of UNESCO. 60 music festivals were also organized.
The founder and first director of the institute was the French musician Alain Daniélou , who, according to media reports, left the institute after a dispute. The two future directors of the institute were Iván Vándor from 1975 to 1987 and the Swiss-German ethnomusicologist Max Peter Baumann from 1988 to 1996, when it was closed . The institute was organized as an association employing 12 people, including five scientists. The institute's budget, which the State of Berlin provided, was at last one million German marks. The institute was closed due to austerity measures by the state of Berlin.
Events (selection)
Together with the Cinti Union Berlin, the IITM was co-organizer of the first "Music and Culture Days of the Cinti and Roma", which took place from October 1 to 11, 1992 in Berlin in the Podewil , the Tempodrom and the House of World Cultures . The concept of the culture days was developed jointly by the Cinti Union Berlin and the IITM; the concerts were recorded in sound and image for a scientific publication. Markus Rosenberg was the managing director of Cinti Union at the time. The artistic direction lay with Wolkly Rosenberg for European music and Habib Hassan Touma for non-European music. The event took place under the patronage of the Governing Mayor of Berlin and the Prime Minister of Brandenburg.
literature
- IITM news: The year 1995 in retrospect , in: The World of Music 38 (2) 1996, 110-117.
Web links
- History page of "The World of Music" magazine with information about the IITM
- Eckhard Roelcke: Silver thistle under sunflowers (surtitle: Berlin cultural policy: Out for the “International Institute for Traditional Music”? ), In: ZEIT December 16, 1994 online
- Booklet of the CD Vocal Music in Crete, The World's Musical Traditions 11 series, PDF
- Authority data of the magazine and partly book series "The World of Music", which was published at the IITM at times
Individual evidence
- ↑ see norm data of the institute under the first name at http://d-nb.info/gnd/1007127-1
- ↑ see article in ZEIT about the planned closure at http://www.zeit.de/1994/51/silberdistel-unter-sonnenblumen/seite-2
- ↑ see article in ZEIT about the planned closure at http://www.zeit.de/1994/51/silberdistel-unter-sonnenblumen/seite-2
- ↑ Music and Culture Days of the Cinti and Roma , 1. – 11. October 1992 in Berlin and Brandenburg, program booklet (48 pages, unpaginated), Berlin 1992