Music as Heritage: Historical and Ethnographic Perspectives
- Submitting institution
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Goldsmiths' College
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 1956
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781138228047
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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M - Music
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This edited volume arose out of an international symposium entitled ‘Safeguarding the Intangible: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Music and Heritage’ hosted by the Asian Music Unit at Goldsmiths in February 2014. The symposium and the publication of this book were supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, London Office after Matsumoto secured from that body a competitive award. _x000D_
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This research project was planned because alongside the complex tensions between globalisation and our concerns for cultural diversity, we perceived that the organising concepts and cultural applications of international efforts needed revision and expansion. Hence our aim was to offer new ethnographic and historical perspectives as well as providing a necessary critique of the principles and methods of UNESCO’s epoch-making 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. To that end, the funding enabled us to source and invite specifically chosen experts not only from the UK but also from Japan and South East Asia, who are working on endangered areas of Western Classical Music, on ‘non-state’ tribal musics, and on recent cultural and aesthetic theory. In this way we were able to make manifest our critique of the contemporary heritagisation project, and to suggest new methods and perspectives. _x000D_
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Following the event, we not only selected papers for publication but also commissioned new chapters in order to broaden approaches even further and structure the volume in a most effective and coherent manner. As a result, the volume uniquely brings together a team of scholars with diverse interests and interrogates how selections for our ‘safeguarding’ are made and how a balance might be struck between the identity and sustainability of cultures, and their inevitable changes through time. In addition, the study assesses some newer methods of preservation and recovery (audio visual, performance etc.).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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