| Title: |
Polyphony, Heritage and Sustainability |
| Authors: |
Bithell, Caroline |
| Source: |
Bithell, C 2018, Polyphony, Heritage and Sustainability. in The Eighth International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony: Proceedings. Eighth International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony, Tbilisi, Georgia, 26/09/16. |
| Publication Year: |
2018 |
| Collection: |
The University of Manchester: Research Explorer - Publications |
| Description: |
This paper is framed by current trends and issues relating to heritage conservation and music revivals. I share insights arising from my own research into Georgian polyphony and my preliminary thoughts about how the developments and debates I have witnessed relate to broader concerns. Questions examined by my co-authors and I in The Oxford Handbook of Music Revival (2014) include: how the process of reviving a tradition leads to transformations, how tensions arise between preservation and innovation, and how authenticity is invoked and manipulated. In reflecting on such matters, I consider how and why the Georgian situation differs from the new directions taken by traditional polyphony in Corsica. I also discuss the implications of Titon’s proposal (in a special issue of the journal The World of Music on Music and Sustainability) that safeguarding efforts ‘should be guided by principles drawn from ecology, not economy’. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| File Description: |
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document |
| Language: |
English |
| Availability: |
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publications/d8f558d4-794f-4262-b228-2dfa23a3435a; https://pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/files/50977562/Bithell_AAM.docx; http://symposium.polyphony.ge/en/proceedings/ |
| Rights: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.19A71C64 |
| Database: |
BASE |