Full Description
The sustainability of music and other intangible expressions of culture has been high on the agenda of scholars, governments and NGOs in recent years. However, there is a striking lack of systematic research into what exactly affects sustainability across music cultures. By analyzing case studies of nine highly diverse music cultures against a single framework that identifies key factors in music sustainability, Sustainable Futures for Music Cultures offers an understanding of both the challenges and the dynamics of music sustainability in the contemporary global environment, and breathes new life into the previously discredited realm of comparative musicology, from an emphatically non-Eurocentric perspective.
Situated within the expanding field of applied ethnomusicology, this book confirms some commonly held beliefs, challenges others, and reveals sometimes surprising insights into the dynamics of music cultures. By examining, comparing and contrasting highly diverse contexts from thriving to 'in urgent need of safeguarding,' Sustainable Futures for Music Cultures analyzes sustainability across five carefully defined domains. The book identifies pathways to strategies and tools that may empower communities to sustain and revitalize their music heritage on their terms. In this way, this book contributes to greater scholarly insight, new (sub)disciplinary approaches, and pathways to improved practical outcomes for the long-term sustainability of music cultures. As such it will be an essential resource for ethnomusicologists, as well as scholars and activists outside of music, with an interest in the preservation of intangible cultural heritage.
Contents
Foreword Anthony Seeger
Chapter 1 Huib Schippers
Sound Futures: Exploring the ecology of sustainability in music
Chapter 2 Catherine Grant
Music sustainability: Strategies and interventions
Chapter 3 James Burns
Southern Ewe dance-drumming: An ethnographic study of performing musicians in contemporary contexts
Chapter 4 Huib Schippers
Hindustani music: Resilience and flexibility in recontextualizing an ancient tradition
Chapter 5 Linda Barwick and Myfany Turpin
Central Australian women's traditional songs: Keeping Yawulyu/Awelye strong
Chapter 6 Peter Dunbar-Hall
Balinese gamelan: Continual innovation, community engagement and links to spirituality as drivers for sustainability
Chapter 7 John Drummond
Western Opera: The price of prestige in a globalized 'total theatre' experience
Chapter 8 Philip Hayward and Sueo Kuwahara
Amami Shima Uta: Sustaining a vernacular popular island music in the shadow of mainstream Japanese culture
Chapter 9 Keith Howard
SamulNori: Sustaining an emerging Korean percussion tradition
Chapter 10 Patricia Shehan Campbell with Leticia Isabel Soto Flores
Mariachi music: Pathway to expressing Mexican musical identity
Chapter 11 Esbjörn Wettermark and Håkan Lundström
Ca trù: The revival and repositioning of a Vietnamese music tradition
Chapter 12 Huib Schippers and Catherine Grant
Approaching music cultures as ecosystems: A dynamic model for understanding and supporting sustainability
