Year Book For Traditional Music Edited by Anca Giurchescu, Adrienne Kaeppler, and Lisbet Torp Volume 23 published by the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM), a founding member organisation of the International Music Council under the auspices of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), Department of Music, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, 1991, $15.

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the years, however, its focus changed, moving with the times and the developments in both ethnomusicology and the anthropology of human movement (the validity of concepts such as 'folk', 'ethnic', and 'tradition', for example, were questioned by scholars) and it has become probably one of the most encompassing organization dealing with music and dance in a worldwide perspective (its membership covers over 60 countries and the list of members in the 1991 Directory filled 64 pages!). Every other year it organises a world conference (this year it was held in Berlin, June 16-22). In addition, regional committees and specialized study groups hold regular events in between (the UK Chapter, for example held a conference at the University of London, Goldsmith College, on 5 December 1992, looking at the relationships between dance and music). Although in its publications the emphasis is still on forms outside the Western theatrical scene, articles such as Bruno Nettl's 'Mozart and the ethnomusicological study of Western culture (an essay in four movements)' (1989) are also appearing, and one paper, by Robert Coleridge, at the Goldsmith's conference last December, for example, looked at the use of music by Western theatrical choreographers. The size of the orga-