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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 February 2019
The Year 1968 marked the coming of age of the International Folk Music Council. As I was in some measure responsible for its birth twenty-one years earlier, the Executive Board invited me to give an account of its activities during that time.
1 Maud Karpeles, Cecil Sharp: His Life and Work (London, 1967).Google Scholar
2 Later the word “tradition” was added to the title. Eventually the commission was replaced by the Société Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Folklore (SIEF).Google Scholar
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4 A list is given on p. 31.Google Scholar
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7 Ibid., vol. XIII (1961).Google Scholar
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9 Editors: vols. I–XII, M. Karpeles; vol. XIII, M. Karpeles and L. Picken; vols. XIV–XV, L. Picken; vol. XVI, M. Karpeles; vols. XVII–XX, P. Crossley-Holland.Google Scholar
10 The review editorship was undertaken by the general editor, except in vols. XVII, XIX, and XX when the review editors were M. Karpeles, B. Krader, and D. Rycroft, respectively.Google Scholar
11 This was an enlarged edition of Musicologica (1950). In 1959 a third edition was published under the title of Ethno-musicology together with a supplement (The Hague).Google Scholar
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