Welcome to this year’s first Musikbiblioteksnytt, The Swedish IAML Magazine.
We have received the following from Lena Nettelbladt, IAML Sweden:
Welcome to this year’s first Musikbiblioteksnytt, The Swedish IAML Magazine, on the Swedish IAML website.
Direct link to the magazine:
http://www.smbf.nu/dok/mbn/mbn_2015_01.pdf
Here you can read about
• Swedish Performing Arts Agency is now responsible for proposing how to preserve the intangible heritage of music, dance and theater according to UNESCO’s directives.
• The Archive for folk dance has turned 50 and was celebrated with a day of lectures and debate.
• Musical archives network meeting had one lectures about a survey looking for gender in the Swedish Folk music Archive’s audiotape collection and one lecture on the fiddlers at the Vasa court in preserved dance repertoire and a debate concerning cuts at the musical archives.
• Swedish music history bibliography is the subject of an essay.
• Johan Mazer (1790-1847) gathered friends and made music. He bequeathed his sheet music and instruments to the Royal Academy of Music and formed a quartet society which is still alive today.
• Music and Theatre Library has changed its library system to Sierra and search system Encore.
• Jürgen Diet from the music department at the Bavarian State Library in Munich was invited by the Swedish IAML branch to give the course Music in Digital Libraries and Archives in Gothenburg for 19 participants.
• Mattias Lundberg, musicologist and lecturer, has made The Swedish music history, a podcast series of 32 programs about music in Sweden from prehistoric time until the year 1800.
• Musical life in balance was the heading on a day about gender equality within the music scene in Sweden
• Equality 2.0 – norm criticism, intersectionality and masculinity in gender work was a full day in Gothenburg where several of Music Agency employees participated.
In last year’s last issue you can read an article in English called A new generation of readers written by Ruth Tatlow, researcher and musicology tutor.