Music Endangerment: How Language Maintenance Can Help

by Catherine Grant

Book Overview

In response to increased focus on the protection of intangible cultural heritage across the world, Music Endangerment offers a new practical approach to assessing, advocating, and assisting the sustainability of musical genres. Drawing upon relevant ethnomusicological research on globalization and musical diversity, musical change, music revivals, and ecological models for sustainability, author Catherine Grant systematically critiques strategies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199352186
• ISBN13: 9780199352180
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: OUP Us
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"