![]() Conceived as a project for safeguarding the musical ICH of these communities, it involved participation from thirteen Latin American governments. Sponsored by CRESPIAL in 2012, the album Cantos y Música Afrodescendientes de América Latina is a compilation of music of Afro-descendant communities in Latin America. This article explores how ICH experts, practitioners, activists, and other actors negotiate and reconstruct ideas of racial identity and authenticity in one such initiative. more Policy and actions for the safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) are laced with politics of representation and meaning-making of expressive culture within and outside communities. Policy and actions for the safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) are laced with poli. ![]() ![]() My analysis highlights 1) the local knowledge systems that inform the ideas of racial identity and authenticity advanced by the project’s actors 2) their adopted strategies within Peru’s bureaucratic network of heritage management and 3) the positionality, capacity and agency of each actor for achieving their particular goals in this collaborative project. This paper, centered on the Peruvian participation in this project, studies the bureaucratic intricacies of this project, exploring how ideas on racial identity and authenticity overlap with political agendas and administrative requirements in order to produce a unified representation of ‘Afro-Latin American’ music. This article explores how ICH experts, practitioners, activists, and other actors negotiate and re-construct ideas of racial identity and authenticity in one such initiative. more ABSTRACT Policy and actions for the safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) are laced with politics of representation and meaning-making of expressive culture within and outside communities. This paper advances current research on musical sustainability, ICH, and applied ethnomusicology by introducing conceptual developments for the analysis of institutional frameworks, partisan agendas, and decision-making processes.ĪBSTRACT Policy and actions for the safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) are laced. I argue that the main challenge in aligning these two approaches resides in the conflicting incentive structures both approaches feature. The article analyses the incentives for state officers, music practitioners, and other stakeholders in ICH projects to assess their compatibility with musical sustainability frameworks. ![]() This paper identifies some of the challenges in the dialogue between these two approaches from an implementation perspective via the case study of the nomination process of the Feast of the Virgin of Candelaria of Puno, Perú to the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. more Both comparative assessment of the concept of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) and developments in musical sustainability, to ensure the viability of grassroots musical practices, have been important concerns among applied ethnomusicologists over the last decade. Both comparative assessment of the concept of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) and developments.
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