Sustainable Futures for Music Cultures
An Ecological Perspective
Edited by Huib Schippers and Catherine Grant
Reviews and Awards
"this volume stands as an excellent work of high scholarly integrity. The editors and contributors successfully address many topics of immediate relevance to applied ethnomusicology and folklore studies with an impressive methodological cohesion and theoretical coherency." -- Alexander Karvelas, University of California, Santa Barbara, Journal of Folklore Research
"Sustainable Futures for Music Cultures: An Ecological Perspective is a pivotal publication that will spark more socially engaged, purposeful front-loading of music research. It will be an important scholarly reference point for many years to come."--Daniel Sheehy, Director & Curator Emeritus, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
"This book is a methodological game changer for ethnomusicology."--Deborah Wong, University of California, Riverside
"The articles all employ accessible writing styles, and could be adopted for upper-level undergraduate and graduate ethnomusicology seminars. It is a particularly welcome addition, with applied ethnomusicology and public musicology seminars increasing in number. Sustainable Futures for Music Cultures contributes new approaches to the study of the ecology of music, providing a nuanced methodological framework that makes examining music cultures from an ecological perspective more concrete and comparative." --MusiCultures