UNESCO
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To Jacques Cloarec, International Institute for Comparative Music Studies, Berlin, 22/02/77
Deals with publication of the recording Alice compiled for the Unesco Musical Sources series and shows Alice’s strong disapproval of the word ‘primeval’ if applied to Australian Aboriginal music. Alice had grave reservations about some of the terminology used for Australian Aboriginal music, especially by people outside of Australia.
(MS3501/1/87/73)
To Cajsa Lund, Yatad, Sweden, 14/06/82
Accepts Lund’s offer of membership to the Archaeomusicological Study Group of the International Council of Traditional Music (ICTM). In 1983, Alice published an article entitled ‘Archaeomusicological possibilities in Australia, Torres Strait and New Guinea’ in the Papuan journal, Bikmaus. The title of that journal gave her much pleasure.
(MS3501/1/110/8)
To Kenneth Chan, Unesco Secretariat, Canberra, 16/04/92
Thanks Unesco for financial support for the 1988 Colloquium, ‘Music and Dance of Aboriginal Australia and the South Pacific: the effects of documentation on the living tradition', sending a copy of the Proceedings. As Australian Liaison Officer of the International Council of Traditional Music (ICTM), Alice had convened the Colloquium, which brought together ethnomusicologists, archivists, linguists and other scholars from Australia, the Pacific, the USA and Europe.
(MS3501/1/145/14)