Music, Communities, Sustainability

Huib Schippers has a thirty-year history of leadership positions in music performance, community engagement, sustainability, education and training across cultures, including the Amsterdam World Music School (1990-1996); the World Music & Dance Centre in Rotterdam (2001-2006), Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre, Griffith University (2003-2015), and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (2016-2020). His innovative work in culturally diverse music education and music sustainability culminated in dozens of journal articles and major publications with Oxford University Press, including Facing the Music: Shaping Music Education from a Global Perspective (2010); and Sustainable Futures for Music Cultures: An Ecological Perspective (2016). Recently returned to his native Amsterdam, he now divides his time between writing, lecturing, mentoring and consulting with academic and arts organizations. Anthony Seeger is an anthropologist, ethnomusicologist, audiovisual archivist, record producer, and musician. He is author of three books on the Kîsêdjê/Suyá Indigenous people in Brazil, four edited volumes, and over 130 shorter publications on ethnomusicology, audiovisual archiving, music ownership, intangible cultural heritage and other topics. He has taught at the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro (1975-1982), the Brazilian Conservatory of Music (1980-1982), Indiana University (1982-1988), and UCLA (2000-2012). He served as director of the Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music (1982-1988), was founding curator and director of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (1988-2000), and Distinguished Professor of Ethnomusicology at UCLA (2000-2012).

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%si'c
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