
The work focuses on the connection between environmental sustainability and human cultural sustainability, and examines the potential for reversal of negative human impact on the environment from a cultural perspective, particularly at the local level. Cooley curated a collection of twenty-three essays by musicologists and ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, folklorists, ethnographers, documentary filmmakers, musicians, artists, and activists that each explore the topic by asking a particular question or presenting a local case study. Contributors include Cooley, Tom Rankin, Nancy Guy, Jeffrey A. Summit, Margarita Mazo, and Jeff Todd Titon, among others.
Publication was supported by a grant from the UC Santa Barbara Division of Humanities and Fine Arts.
Cultural Sustainabilities: Music, Media, Language, Advocacy is available for purchase at press.uillinois.edu. The book is also available through the UC Santa Barbara Library.

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