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Vol. 4 No. 1 Aug 2002
Intercultural Musicology
An Internationally Reviewed Bulletin of the Centre for Intercultural Music Arts
London, U. K.
Published by MRI Press
P. O. Box 70362
Point Richmond, CA 94807-0362 USA
ISSN 1536-8039
Copyright © MRI Press 2002 |
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CIMA
The Centre for Intercultural Music Arts (CIMA), a British
Charity, was founded in 1988. The Centre aims to promote intercultural music and
music theatre and to educate the public in their creation and performance.
The Centre was inaugurated in response to the challenges
posed by composers and performers who are exploring new dimensions in music by
integrating elements from different cultures.
The Centre believes that composers from non-Western cultures
are likely to become increasingly influential in the world of music and that
musical interculturalism and other creative ideas generated from or inspired by
non-Western sources will be among the major events of the twenty-first century.
The Centre organises a major international biennial symposium
and festival on the theme "New Intercultural Music" and also publishes
a series of books under the general title of Intercultural Music and an Intercultural
Musicology journal. The editor of the book series and the journal is Robert
Mawuena Kwami, and the editor in chief is Cynthia Tse Kimberlin. To find out
more on the Centre’s activities, visit its website at: http://ioecima.homestead.com.
The Centre is one of the founding organisations of the
International Consortium for the Music of Africa and its Diaspora (ICMAD). One
of ICMAD's objectives is "To promote visibility and expand markets and
audiences for all composers of African descent, and for other scholars and
educators who advocate and promote African and African-American music,
composition and performance." For more information, visit ICMAD's website
at http://www.africanchorus.org/ICMAD/ICMAD.htm
or contact Fred Onovwerosuoke, ICMAD Secretariat, 634 N.
Grand Blvd., Suite 1143, St. Louis, Missouri 63103, USA. E-mail: icmad@africanchorus.org.
Two other organisations, which are associated with the
Centre, need to be mentioned. First, the Music Research Institute (MRI), a
California based charity is one of CIMA's long-time benefactors. The MRI
publishes CIMA's publications, namely, Intercultural Music, an edited
book series and Intercultural Musicology, an edited journal series. Both
academic publications are internationally refereed. For further information on
the activities of the MRI, visit their website
at http://www.music-research-inst.org/
or contact
Dr Cynthia Tse Kimberlin, Music Research Institute, P. O. Box
70362, Point Richmond, CA 94807, USA. E-mail: cyntse@attbi.com
Secondly, the International Society - African to American
Music (IS-AAM), also a founder member of the ICMAD, has been collaborating with
CIMA since 2000. The IS-AAM co-organised and hosted CIMA's international
biennial symposia and festivals in 2000, and also the conference on
"Composition in Africa and the Diaspora", which took place at
Churchill College, University of Cambridge during August 1-4, 2001. For more
information on the activities of IS-AAM, contact Mike Wright, IS-AAM, 49 Waltham Avenue,
Guildford, Surrey, GU2 9QF, United
Kingdom. E-mail: mswright@isaam.fsnet.co.uk |
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