A UK society that aims to further the study of music and dance from all parts of the world from an ethnomusicological perspective. The organization was initially formed in 1973 as an affiliated national committee of the International Folk Music Council on the instigation of Peter Cooke. When the parent organization became the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM), the UK affiliated national committee became ICTM (UK Chapter). It remains the UK National Committee of the ICTM, but changed its name to the British Forum for Ethnomusicology in 1995. Two conferences are held each year, either separately or in conjunction with other academic societies and interest groups. Since 1992, the Society has published the British Journal of Ethnomusicology.
BFE homepage: http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/1-M/mus/staff/js/BFE.html
CAROLE PEGG