WORLDWIDE MUSIC CONFERENCE 2024

The Statement on Global Musical Culture

10 December 2024, 9:00-18:00

United Nations' Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland

About the Conference 2024

The Worldwide Music Conference 2024 brings together distinguished music researchers, musicians, as well as public, financial, and diplomatic figures. The goal is to identify key tasks for the preservation and development of musical culture and to create the Statement – a document listing these tasks and calling on the international community to join efforts in addressing them. At the conference, issues related to music creation, education, research, preservation of musical heritage, diversity and equality of national traditions, among other areas, will be discussed.

Summarizing the opinions expressed during the conference, participants will also develop the Justification of the Statement, in which the importance of the tasks outlined in the Statement will be supported by arguments from science, art, and society.

The Statement will later be promoted with the support of international organizations and diplomatic institutions.

Hosted at the Palais des Nations by the World Health Organization

The Statement on Global Musical Culture

The Clauses

1. Priority: the importance of musical culture for humanity.
2. Musical heritage, challenges in its protection.
3. Endangered cultures: the musical cultures of indigenous peoples as one of the most vulnerable and valuable parts of musical heritage.
4. Access to world musical heritage for all people.
5. The status of music in society.
6. Music education.
7. The importance and prospects of scientific research in music.
8. Conditions for the prosperity of musical culture.
9. The diversity of musical cultures.
10. Equality of musical cultures.

Review the draft version of the document.

Open the Statement

Confirmed Speakers 2024 include

Anna Lomax Wood

anthropologist and ethnomusicologist
past-director at the Association for Cultural Equity

Liliam Barros

ethnomusicologist
professor at the Pará State Federal University

Dario Martinelli

musicologist and semiotician
Kaunas University of Technology

Philip Yampolsky

ethnomusicologist
past-director & founder of the Robert E. Brown Center for World Music, University of illinois

Stefan Koelsch

psychologist and neuroscientist
University of Bergen

Bophary Va

chief of cultural research section at the Royal University of Fine Arts, Cambodia

Iegor Reznikoff

mathematician, philosopher, and musicologist, specializing in sacred chant, former professor at the University Paris-Nanterre

More speakers will be revealed soon

Conference Timetable 2024

Tuesday, 10 December

Time Activity
09:00 - 11:00 Welcome and Opening Concert
11:00 - 12:00 Conference Opening
12:00 - 16:30 The Statement Discussion
16:30 - 18:00 Panel: Conclusion of the Discussion

Conference Location

Palais des Nations, Room XVIII, E . Building

About the Association Worldwide Music Conference (WWMC)

The association is a non-profit organisation based in Geneva, Switzerland.

WWMC builds an international community of people who share and support our mission — to give a holistic view on music and expand music comprehension for the further development of musical culture. The community consists of music researchers, musicians, as well as public, diplomatic, and financial figures and institutions.

The Worldwide Music Conference in Geneva is a flagship event that showcases the latest scientific discoveries about music and draws public attention to the most urgent issues of musical culture.

The Worldwide Music Conference, held in different parts of the world, explores the indigenous and traditional musical cultures of individual nations and regions, as well as important phenomena that have had a significant influence on the evolution of music.

Besides the conferences, our main activities include research projects.

Past Editions

2021

Scientific World Explores Music

2023

World Musical Cultures

Contact us

hello@wwmc.io

Association Worldwide Music Conference
Geneva, Switzerland