While sustainability is in vogue today, musical and cultural sustainability remains to be fully theorized. If ethnomusicology is the study of people making music, and applied
ethnomusicology is the application of that study in the public interest, then my work asks how cultural policy regarding music may be informed by the most powerful contemporary discourses in sustainability, those coming from ecology and from economics. For more information on the larger project from which
this talk derives, please see: http://sustainablemusic.blogspot.com