Sounding good : advancing cultural sustainability and social justice through music /
"Author Catherine Grant joins artist-researcher collaborators from across five continents to explore the deep and sometimes surprising interplays between music, cultural sustainability, and matters of social justice. In Cambodia, a "magic music bus" chugs through rural provinces, joyf...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Author Catherine Grant joins artist-researcher collaborators from across five continents to explore the deep and sometimes surprising interplays between music, cultural sustainability, and matters of social justice. In Cambodia, a "magic music bus" chugs through rural provinces, joyfully returning traditional music to people and places from which it has nearly disappeared. In a refugee camp in the harsh Algerian desert, people come together to sing old and new songs about everyday life in the camps, their nostalgia for their Western Saharan homeland, and their hopes for the future. In a university class in Brazil, students learn songs, dances, and stories from a senior Indigenous culture-bearer-the first time these cultural practices have been welcomed into formal tertiary education. Through these cases, and others from Vanuatu, India, and Australia, this book demonstrates how strong and sustainable cultural practices can advance the cause of social justice, and vice versa"-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197698457 019769845X 9780197698471 0197698476 |