Music, Communities, Sustainability

Acknowledgements Foreword--Jeff Todd Titon 1. Introduction: Approaching music as Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH)--Anthony Seeger and Huib Schippers PART ONE: THE GENESIS OF THE ICH CONVENTION 2. Recognizing Intangible Cultural Heritage--Richard Kurin 3. Modalities for community participation in implementing the UNESCO ICH Convention--Noriko Aikawa-Fauré 4. Definitions related to the safeguarding of living culture: Words matter--Wim van Zanten (summary; full text available on companion website) 5. Reclaiming community agency in managing Intangible Cultural Heritage: Paperwork, people, and the potential of the public voice--Naila Ceriba?ic PART TWO: THE ICH CONVENTION IN ACTION 6. The "ICH Movement" in China: The Status of Traditional Musics after ICH Certification--XIAO Mei & YANG Xiao 7. UNESCO-based and UNESCO-free: Governmental and Non-Governmental Efforts for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage--Olcay Muslu 8. Community Engagement as a Site of Struggle: UNESCO Conventions, Intangible Cultural Heritage, and State Agendas--Tan Sooi Beng 9. There Is No Price for That: UNESCO as Translator Between Conflicting Value Systems in Guatemala--Logan Elizabeth Clark 10. Sustainability, Agency, and the Ecologies of Music Heritage in Alentejo, Portugal--Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco PART THREE: FUTURE PERSPECTIVES 11. Reading ICH in Cultural Space: China's National Cultural Ecosystem (Experimental) Conservation Areas--GAO Shu 12. Archives, Technology, Communities, and Sustainability: Overcoming the Tragedy of Humpty Dumpty--Anthony Seeger (summary; full text available on companion website) 13. Mapping Musical Vitality: A Comparative Approach to Identifying Musical Heritage in Need of Safeguarding--Catherine Grant 14. Working Musically Through Crisis: What Will It Take to Push for a Sound(er) Future for Haiti?--Rebecca Dirksen