摘要：Like other forms of intangible heritage, traditional music
cultures have been adversely affected by the major
economic, social, and technological shifts of recent
decades. The resultant changes in musical contexts,
function, prestige, and modes of transmission have
jeopardised the vitality and viability of many musical
genres. Efforts to actively support the sustainability of
endangered music heritage are developing, often in the
context of the emerging field of ‘applied ethno-musicology’.
The more established field of language maintenance has
conceptual, theoretical, and pragmatic parallels with
safeguarding music, and these synergies are arguably of
great importance to the swift development of effective
mechanisms for supporting viable and vibrant music
cultures. This paper identifies areas where the
maintenance of a language holds the potential to inform
pathways towards sustaining endangered musical heritage,
and explores one of them in depth – the tension between
documenting endangered languages and attempting to
revitalise them.
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