---

This issue of the world of music is devoted to a topic of enduring importance to ethnomusicology: the sustainability of music cultures. It elaborates on findings drawn from a five-year international research project, Sustainable Futures for Music Cultures, coordinated from Australia by the Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre, Griffith University, Australia, and funded by the Australian Research Council and a range of academic and industry partners. The Sustainable Futures project investigated the notion of music sustainability in nine diverse case studies exploring highly diverse music practices worldwide, revealing the complex relationships between music genres, musicians, audiences and the cultural ecosystems that they inhabit and shape. The comparison of these case studies resulted in the elaboration of a discourse of musical "ecosystems."
This volume extends the discourse developed through Sustainable Futures to include six further examples of scholarly engagement with musical ecosystems, together with an introduction that frames the ecosystems approach in relation to current trends in ethnomusicology. It encompasses various professional and academic perspectives on this topic, with contributions from individuals who have occupied diverse positions vis-à-vis their fields of enquiry as scholars, performers, promoters, industry leaders, activists, and teachers. The volume is deliberately international in scope, with contributions from authors in China, India, Australia, New Zealand, the USA, and the UK. While thematically aligned, these contributions maintain distinctive voices, reflecting the differing foci and priorities of the authors themselves, who reside both inside and outside academia. Overall, the volume aims to contribute to the development of theoretical discourses in ethnomusicology by provoking dialogue about musical ecosystems, achieved through the presentation of concrete and applied examples.

---

Contents:

+++ Articles

Dan Bendrups & Huib Schippers: Preface: Sound Futures
Huib Schippers & Dan Bendrups: Ethnomusicology, Ecology and the Sustainability of Music Cultures
Anthony Seeger & Shubha Chaudhuri: The Contributions of Reconfigured Audiovisual Archives to Sustaining Traditions
Trevor Wiggins: Music, Education, and Sustainability
Zhang Boyu, with Yao Hui & Huib Schippers: Report: The Rise and Implementation of Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection for Music in China
Dan Bendrups & Donna Weston: Open Air Music Festivals and the Environment: A Framework for Understanding Ecological Engagement
Alison Booth: Producing Bollywood: Entrepreneurs and Sustainable Production Networks
Richard Letts. Global Perspectives: The IMC Report on Forces Affecting Music Sustainability

+++ Book Reviews (Eva-Maria van Straaten, ed.)

Carl Clements: Martin Clayton, Byron Dueck, & Laura Leante (eds.), Experience and Meaning in Music Performance (2013)
Louis Regis: Jocelyne Guilbault & Roy Cape, Roy Cape, A Life on the Calypso and Soca Bandstand (2014)
Tom Solomon: Philip V. Bohlman (ed.), The Cambridge History of World Music (2013)
Eckehard Pistrick: Andreas Gebesmair, Anja Brunner & Regina Sperlich (eds.), Balkanboom! Eine Geschichte der Balkanmusik in Österreich (2014)
Anna-Elena Pääkkölä: Babette Babich, The Hallelujah Effect-Philosophical Reflections on Music, Performance Practice, and Technology (2013)
Maria S. Guarino: Ian Russell & Catherine Ingram (eds.), Taking Part in Music: Case Studies in Ethnomusicology (2013)
Mountainous Sound Spaces: Listening to History and Music in the Uttarakhand Himalayas (2014)
Stig-Magnus Thorsen: David A. McDonald, My Voice Is My Weapon: Music, Nationalism, and the Poetics of Palestinian Resistance (2013)

+++ Recording Reviews ((Robert Fry, ed.)

David Knapp: Nudbok al Amar (Dabke on the Moon), DAM. Produced by Nabil Nafar, Jethro Beats, Anan Ksym, and Abed Hathut (2012)
Jacqueline Avila: Birdman (Or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance). Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. Prodcued by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (2014)
Kayleen Justus: Oui ma Cherie!-Music for Steel Orchestra, Studio Kitchen Crew. Produced by Andy Narell (2014)
Lisa Osunleti Beckley-Roberts: Hunter Poetry, WolfHawkJaguar. Produced by Wolfhawkjaguar (2012)

+++ About the Contributors
+++ the world of music (new series)

---