ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book addresses some of the cultural rights and heritage issues. It provides information on various projects and approaches include Applied Ethnomusicology: Historical and Contemporary Approaches and Oxford Handbook for Applied Ethnomusicology as well as numerous articles in journals and collections. The book also presents an information on indigenous and environmental knowledge and human and non-human agency in connection with music. It also provides a range of approaches to viewing community and events in social spaces: through mobility, political action, and constructing and relating to soundscapes. The book explores gestures of both performers and audience members in a vocal music performance to reveal how all participants at a performance event experience musical structure. It considers due to concerns about fieldwork data that is constantly being produced, revised, reused, and returned to source communities.
