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Foreword / Jeff Todd Titon -- Introduction. Approaching music as Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) / Anthony Seeger and Huib Schippers -- PART ONE. THE GENESIS OF THE ICH CONVENTION. Recognizing Intangible Cultural Heritage / Richard Kurin ; Modalities for community participation in implementing the UNESCO ICH Convention / Noriko Aikawa-Faure ; Definitions related to the safeguarding of living culture : Words matter / Wim van Zanten (summary; full text available on companion website) ; Reclaiming community agency in managing Intangible Cultural Heritage : Paperwork, people, and the potential of the public voice / Naila Ceribašić -- PART TWO. THE ICH CONVENTION IN ACTION. The "ICH Movement" in China : The Status of Traditional Musics after ICH Certification / Xiao Mei & Yang Xiao ; UNESCO-based and UNESCO-free : Governmental and Non-Governmental Efforts for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage / Olcay Muslu ; Community Engagement as a Site of Struggle : UNESCO Conventions, Intangible Cultural Heritage, and State Agendas / Tan Sooi Beng ; There Is No Price for That: UNESCO as Translator Between Conflicting Value Systems in Guatemala / Logan Elizabeth Clark ; Sustainability, Agency, and the Ecologies of Music Heritage in Alentejo, Portugal / Slwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco -- PART THREE. FUTURE PERSPECTIVES. Reading ICH in Cultural Space : China's National Cultural Ecosystem (Experimental) Conservation Areas / Gao Shu ; Archives, Technology, Communities, and Sustainability : Overcoming the Tragedy of Humpty Dumpty / Anthony Seeger ; Mapping musical vitality : A comparative approach to identifying musical heritage in need of safeguarding / Catherine Grant ; Working Musically Through Crisis : What Will It Take to Push for a Sound(er) Future for Haiti? / Rebecca Dirksen.

"Around the world and across time, singers and their songs stand at the crossroads of differing politics and perspectives. Levi S. Gibbs edits a collection built around the idea of listening as a political act that produces meaning. Contributors explore a wide range of issues by examining artists like Romani icon Esma Redžepova, Indian legend Lata Mangeshkar, and pop superstar Teresa Teng. Topics include gendered performances and the negotiation of race and class identities; the class-related contradictions exposed by the divide between highbrow and pop culture; links between narratives of overcoming struggle and the distinction between privileged and marginalized identities; singers' ability to adapt to shifting notions of history, borders, gender, and memory in order to connect with listeners; how the meanings we read into a singer's life and art build on one another; and technology's ability to challenge our ideas about what constitutes music. Cutting-edge and original, Social Voices reveals how singers and their songs equip us to process social change and divergent opinions"--

This book gathers international voices from the field of ethnomusicology discussing the socio-political relevance of the discipline. The articles draw from contemporary discourses that take into account the role of music and dance in shaping social and political realities. An important field connected to political relevance is heritage, either in connection with the UNESCO or with archives. Ontologies of indigenous groups and their relevance in knowledge production is discussed in ethnomusicology nowadays as well as the possibilities of decolonising the discipline. Two articles from ethno-choreology explore dance from the gender perspective and in the post-socialist political structures. Different approaches from applied ethnomusicology deal with social justice, participatory dialogical practice, and the socio-political relevance of performance. Forced migration is seen as comprehensive topic for future ethnomusicology. The contents of the book mirror influential discourses of ethnomusicology today that will definitely shape the future development of the discipline.