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I remember the time (1981) when the IFMC—the International Folk Music Council—renamed itself ICTM (International Council of Traditional Music). I was relieved to hear this, because, as a German brought up in the 1950s, I had learned to suspect the …
Forty years ago to this day, September 5, 1977, NASA rocketed the space probe Voyager I into space. While music theory at that time was busy circling within its own orbit exploring “the music itself,” the astronomer Carl Sagan placed on …
Is musicology limited to human culture? The NASA team that put together the Voyager mission forty years ago didn’t think so. They included on board of their two spacecraft a “Golden Record” that included greetings in more than fifty languages, …