- Title
- Music sustainability
- Creator
- Grant, Catherine
- Relation
- Oxford Bibliographies in Music
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- The sustainability of music is an emerging – or rather, re-emerging – theme in ethnomusicological research. Early studies in that discipline centered on documenting musical traditions feared doomed to extinction, an approach scholars now refer to as salvage ethnomusicology. Spurred by UNESCO's 2003 Convention on the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage and other national and international calls-to-arms, researchers and activists are increasingly re-engaging with the complex challenges of maintaining and revitalizing threatened music genres, particularly those of indigenous and minority peoples. Current approaches are more pragmatic than earlier ones. They typically acknowledge the natural emergence, change and decay of musical traditions as well as the many local and global processes that act upon all music genres, from technological developments and environmental shifts to rural-to-urban migration and economic and political pressures. Defining music sustainability as the ability of a music genre to endure, without implications of either a static tradition or a preservationist bearing, this article maps out a selection of scholarly publications, policy instruments, projects and initiatives, reports and online resources that relate to this topic.
- Subject
- sustainability; ethnomusicology; music
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1043998
- Identifier
- uon:14279
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780199757824
- Rights
- 10.1093/obo/9780199757824-0105
- Language
- eng
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