Title: Music endangerment : how language maintenance can help /
Authors: Grant, Catherine, 1977-
Year: 2014
Subjects: Applied ethnomusicology.; Sustainability.; Language maintenance.
Abstract: Situated within the growing field of applied ethnomusicology, and breaking with a tradition in ethnomusicology of ethnographic and fieldwork-based studies, this book explores the phenomenon of endangered music genres and ways in which the fields of language endangerment and language maintenance may inform efforts to support them.
Contents: What we know and what we've done -- Language and music vitality : a comparative framework -- Learning from language maintenance -- How to identify and assess endangerment : the music vitality and endangerment framework -- Measuring up : putting the framework to work -- Where to from here?