Cultural sustainabilities : music, media, language, advocacy / edited by Timothy J. Cooley ; foreword by Jeff Todd Titon.

Contains bibliographical references and index.

Sustainability, resilience, advocacy, and activism : Introduction / Timothy J. Cooley.

Part 1. Thinking, writing, and musicking about sustainability. Sustainability clashes and concordances / Robert Baron and Thomas Walker -- Dialogues all the way down : Conversational genres as matrices of cultural and ecological renewal / Mary Hufford -- Radical critical empathy and cultural sustainability / Rory Turner -- Sounding sustainable, or, The challenge of sustainability / Aaron S. Allen.

Part 2. Responding to anthropogenic change. Garbage truck music and sustainability in contemporary Taiwan : From cockroaches to Beethoven and beyond / Nancy Guy -- Climate change, mobile pastoralism, and cultural heritage in Western Mongolia / Jennifer C. Post -- Singing for la Mêche Perdue : Reconciling economic, environmental, and cultural imperatives in Louisiana / Mark F. Dewitt -- Alaska native ways of knowing and the sustenance of musical communites in an ailing petrostate / Susan Hurley-Glowa -- The New River updates : Charles Ives and the disappearing river gods / Denise von Glahn.

Part 3. Musics, sustainability, and media. Fandom's remix : Popular music, participation, and sustainability / Daniel Cavicchi -- Music, media, and mediation / Barry Dornfeld -- Photography, memory, and the frail instant / Tom Rankin -- 'Tis the company : Irish traditional music as social medium in the age of social media / Patrick Hutchinson -- Sustaining indigenous sounds : Music broadcasting and cultural vitalization in Highland Peru / Joshua Tucker.

Part 4. Voice, language, trauma, and resilience. Digital technology, chanting Torah, and the sustainability of tradition / Jeffrey A. Summit -- Cultural integrity and local music in Cape Breton and New Orleans / Burt Feintuch -- BeAka singing in a state of emergency : Storytelling and listening as medium and message / Michelle Kisliuk -- Lament and affective cardiac responses / Margarita Mazo.

Part 5. Applying sustainable practices. Resilience and adaptive management in piano pedagogy for individuals with autism spectrum conditions / Dotan Nitzberg and Michael B. Bakan -- The Fiesta de la Bulería of Jerez de la Frontera : Music, identity, and the construction of heritage / Roshan Samtani -- Fiddle-icious : A community model for musical sustainability / Thomas Faux -- Discovering Maine's intangible cultural heritage / Pauleena M. MacDougall -- Song, surfing, and Postcolonial sustainability / Timothy J. Cooley.