In Music, Communities, Sustainability, editors Huib Schippers and Anthony Seeger bring together a diverse roster of thinkers and practitioners to offer new perspectives on the effects of the 2003 UNESCO Convention on Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, and on efforts around the world to treat music as one essential Intangible Cultural Heritage of humankind.

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

"This anthology is a 'must read' for those who value local and traditional music cultures in an interconnected world. It presents timely and deeply informed perspectives from scholars in ten countries on the debates and impacts of UNESCO's 2003 Convention. Their work raises crucial questions about who benefits, how traditions are both sustained and changed innovatively (though sometimes controversially), whose traditions thrive and whose are left without support when the interests of communities, nation states, and commercial enterprises vie for control." -- Beverley Diamond, Memorial University of Newfoundland "A revealing book about music as Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) in the words of authors from different parts of the world, writing from a variety of professional perspectives and experiences. Firm understandings of the past and the present give these authors the authority to celebrate, critique, and suggest improvements for the future." -- Svanibor Pettan, University of Ljubljana, ICTM President

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).

Selling point: Tells the full story of the genesis, definition, and implementation of the most ambitious international initiative towards safeguarding musical diversity on the planet to date Selling point: Deploys a strong mix of historical insights and diverse contemporary critical perspectives by emerging and established scholars with long and deep histories in the various cultures from which they draw Selling point: Features a companion website with additional readings and audio-visual resources suitable for learning and teaching about cultural sustainability