TY - JOUR
AU - Bell Yung
AB - UNESCO first proclaimed Masterpieces of Oral and Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2001, later subsumed under “elements” to a Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity; its expressed goal was to preserve music whose survival was being threatened. Not surprisingly, East Asian nations embraced UNESCO s actions with enthusiasm, for many of them had decades earlier enacted laws for that purpose, attesting to the nations  strong sense of history through the arts. Such a sense is treated in this fine volume, which presents ten case studies of musical genres from Japan, Korea, Taiwan and China, with an introductory chapter by Keith Howard on the ideology and policy of UNESCO and of individual nations. The central issue that most of them focus on is “preservation,” as is shown in six of the titles. The musical genres chosen were designated as endangered and in need of “preservation” by either UNESCO or the nations themselves.
DO - 10.1017/S0305741013000568
M1 - 214
N2 - UNESCO first proclaimed Masterpieces of Oral and Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2001, later subsumed under “elements” to a Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity; its expressed goal was to preserve music whose survival was being threatened. Not surprisingly, East Asian nations embraced UNESCO s actions with enthusiasm, for many of them had decades earlier enacted laws for that purpose, attesting to the nations  strong sense of history through the arts. Such a sense is treated in this fine volume, which presents ten case studies of musical genres from Japan, Korea, Taiwan and China, with an introductory chapter by Keith Howard on the ideology and policy of UNESCO and of individual nations. The central issue that most of them focus on is “preservation,” as is shown in six of the titles. The musical genres chosen were designated as endangered and in need of “preservation” by either UNESCO or the nations themselves.
SP - 498
EP - 499
TI - Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Policy, Ideology and Practice in the Preservation of East Asian Traditions
SN - 0305-7410
ER -