available 2025
oxford university press
In Sounding Good: Advancing Cultural Sustainability and Social Justice through Music, music researcher Catherine Grant joins artist and scholar collaborators from four continents to explore the deep—and sometimes surprising—interplays between music, cultural sustainability, and social justice.
Through six wide-ranging case studies, this book emphasises the potential for strong and sustainable cultural practices to advance social change agendas, and vice versa.
Traversing a range of pressing contemporary social concerns—from forced migration, educational equity, and uneven wealth distributions to racial, cultural, and climate justice—Sounding Good contends that understanding the links between music, cultural sustainability, and social justice is more important than ever.
Not only will doing so help efforts to protect and promote the rich diversity of musical practices around the world; it will also enhance our prospects of an equitable and thriving world, now and into the future.
Features of the book:
* represents the first in-depth exploration of links between social justice and cultural sustainability
* takes an interdisciplinary, human-centred, future-focused approach to pressing social and cultural concerns
* builds on the growing interest in the socially transformative potential of contemporary music research
* presents six musical case studies across four continents, spanning diverse geopolitical and sociocultural settings
* illustrates how the links between cultural sustainability and social justice may be leveraged for mutual gain
* offers new insights and perspectives to inform cultural and social policy, advocacy, and action
* enables policymakers, cultural NGOs, and researchers to more effectively support musicians and communities
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