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Music Endangerment: How Language Maintenance Can Help - Hardcover

Grant, Catherine

 
9780199352173: Music Endangerment: How Language Maintenance Can Help

Synopsis

In response to increased focus on the preservation of intangible cultural heritage across the world, Music Endangerment offers the first practical approach to assessing, advocating, and assisting the sustainability of musical genres. Significant for both its insight and its utility, this book is an important contribution to the growing field of applied ethnomusicology, and will help secure the continued diversity of our global musical traditions.

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About the Author

Catherine Grant is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Creative Arts, University of Newcastle, Australia. Grant's academic publications relating to music endangerment include articles in the International Journal of Intangible Heritage, the International Journal of Social Sustainability in Economic, Social and Cultural Context, and the entry on 'Music Sustainability' in Oxford Bibliographies Online. She has presented widely on the topic of music endangerment and vitality, including at conferences and symposia in Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Cambodia. In 2014, she was awarded a fellowship by the Australian Academy of the Humanities to continue her research into endangered Cambodian musical traditions. For details of publications, visit newcastle-au.academia.edu/CatherineGrant

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