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Music endangerment : how language maintenance can help / Catherine Grant.

Title
Music endangerment : how language maintenance can help / Catherine Grant.
Author
Grant, Catherine, 1977-
Publication
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]

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Description
xiii, 206 pages; 24 cm
Summary
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.
Uniform Title
University press scholarship online.
Subject
  • Applied ethnomusicology
  • Language maintenance
  • Sustainability
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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?
ISBN
  • 9780199352173 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 0199352178 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9780199352180 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0199352186 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2013036298
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library