Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sound futures : exploring the ecology of music sustainability / Huib Schippers -- Music sustainability : strategies and interventions / Catherine Grant -- Southern ewe dance-drumming : challenges for performers in contemporary Ghanian contexts / James Burns -- Hindustani music : resilience and flexibility in recontextualizing an ancient tradition / Huib Schippers -- Central Australian women's traditional songs : keeping Yawulyu/Awelye strong / Linda Barwick and Myfany Turpin -- Balinese gamelan : continual innovation, community engagement, and link to spirituality as drivers for sustainability / Peter Dunbar-Hall -- Western opera : the price of prestige in a globailzed "total theater" experience / John Drummond -- Amami shima uta : sustaining a vernacular popular island music in the shadow of mainstream Japanese culture / Philip Hayward and Sueo Kuwahara -- Samulnori : sustaining an emerging Korean percussion tradition / Keith Howard -- Mariachi music : pathway to expressing Mexican musical identity / Patricia Shehan Campbell and Leticia Soto Flores -- Ca tráu : the revival and repositioning of a Vietnamese music tradition / Esbjèorn Wettermark and Hêakan Lundstrèom -- Approaching music cultures as ecosystems : a dynamic model for understanding and supporting sustainability / Huib Schippers and Catherine Grant.