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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 that are currently employed to support endangered musics. She then constructs a comparative framework between language and music, adapting and applying the measures of language endangerment as developed by UNESCO, in order to identify ways in which language maintenance might (and might not) illuminate new pathways to keeping these musics strong. Grant's work presents the first in-depth, standardized, replicable tool for gauging the level of vitality of music genres, providing an invaluable resource for the creation and maintenance of international cultural policy. It will enable those working in the field to effectively demonstrate the degree to which outside intervention could be of tangible benefit to communities whose musical practices are under threat. Significant for both its insight and its utility, Music Endangerment is an important contribution to the growing field of applied ethnomusicology, and will help secure the continued diversity of our global musical traditions.Readership: Scholars and students of ethnomusicology, intangible cultural heritage, or cultural sustainability, as well as those interested in language maintenance or sociolinguistics

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"""Grant gathers a great amount of information, synthesizes it clearly, and then expresses it comprehensively and yet succintly. The writing is geared towards academics but is lucid and straightforward, free of jargon...knowledge gained from studying this book and applying that knowledge to life situationis will be invaluable for each new situation.""--Global Forum on Arts and Christian Faith"

Grant gathers a great amount of information, synthesizes it clearly, and then expresses it comprehensively and yet succintly. The writing is geared towards academics but is lucid and straightforward, free of jargon...knowledge gained from studying this book and applying that knowledge to life situationis will be invaluable for each new situation. --Global Forum on Arts and Christian Faith

""Grant gathers a great amount of information, synthesizes it clearly, and then expresses it comprehensively and yet succintly. The writing is geared towards academics but is lucid and straightforward, free of jargon...knowledge gained from studying this book and applying that knowledge to life situationis will be invaluable for each new situation.""--Global Forum on Arts and Christian Faith

Grant gathers a great amount of information, synthesizes it clearly, and then expresses it comprehensively and yet succintly. The writing is geared towards academics but is lucid and straightforward, free of jargon...knowledge gained from studying this book and applying that knowledge to life situationis will be invaluable for each new situation. --Global Forum on Arts and Christian Faith Grant gathers a great amount of information, synthesizes it clearly, and then expresses it comprehensively and yet succintly. The writing is geared towards academics but is lucid and straightforward, free of jargon...knowledge gained from studying this book and applying that knowledge to life situationis will be invaluable for each new situation. --Global Forum on Arts and Christian Faith

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Catherine Grant is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the School of Creative Arts, University of Newcastle. She has engaged in various capacities with communities whose cultural expressions are under threat, and has written and presented internationally on the topic of music endangerment and sustainability.

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