Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-310) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: historical and ethnographic perspectives on music as heritage / Barley Norton and Naomi Matsumoto -- Part 1. Representing music heritage. Musical heritage as a cultural and global concept / Anthony Pryer -- L'opera dei pupi, torneo, and early opera: shared traditions and intangible experiences / Naomi Matsumoto -- Audiovisual media and performing arts in danger / Terada Yoshitaka -- Filming music as heritage: the cultural politics of audiovisual representation / Barley Norton -- Part 2. Safeguarding music heritage. Life beyond ritual? Preserving the shamanic performance arts in South Korea today / Simon Mills -- Safeguarding kunqu in the People's Republic of China / Min Yen Ong -- Safeguarding the heart's home town: Japanese folk song as intangible cultural heritage / David W. Hughes -- The early-romantic piano concerto and the lost cultural heritage of improvisation / Rohan Stewart-MacDonald -- Part 3. Repositioning music heritage. Folklore, the city and a world in transition: intangible cultural heritage in Georgia (Caucasus) / Caroline Bithell -- Safeguarding intangible cultural heritage in China: policies and national perspectives / Hwee-San Tan -- Cultural heritage, sustainability and innovation in South Indian art music / Lara Pearson -- Heritage within the avant-garde? Traditional and contemporary musics in post-war Japan / Rica Narimoto -- Afterword / Keith Howard.
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