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Professor Huib Schippers was the founding Director of Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre (2003-2015). Performance training in sitar music led to an interest in global music education and action-research projects in Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. He established and led the first World Music School in Amsterdam (1990) and later was the principal driver behind the World Music & Dance Centre in Rotterdam (2006). He has taught and lectured across the world, and published extensively on learning and teaching for over 20 years, most notably in his- Oxford University Press publication 'Facing the music: shaping music education from a global perspective' (2010). His current research interest is music sustainability, approached from the perspective of 'cultural ecosystems' that he developed as part of an international ARC funded research collaboration, the results of which were published by Oxford University Press in 2016 and 2022.
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Huib Schippers
Sustainable futures for music cultures: An ecological perspective
by Huib Schippers and Catherine Grant
Oxford University Press, 2016
The sustainability of music and other intangible expressions of culture has been high on the agen... more The sustainability of music and other intangible expressions of culture has been high on the agenda of scholars, governments and NGOs in recent years. However, there is a striking lack of systematic research into what exactly affects sustainability across music cultures. By analyzing case studies of nine highly diverse music cultures against a single framework that identifies key factors in music sustainability, the edited volume Sustainable Futures for Music Cultures offers an understanding of both challenges and the dynamics of music sustainability in the contemporary global environment, as well as breathing new life into the realm of comparative musicology, now from an emphatically non-Eurocentric perspective.
Situated within the expanding field of applied ethnomusicology, this edited volume confirms some commonly held beliefs, challenges others, and reveals sometimes surprising insights into the dynamics of music cultures by examining, comparing and contrasting highly diverse contexts, from thriving to ‘in urgent nee