Indigenous music sustainability during climate change

摘要

Indigenous music sustainability forms a cohesive concept due to shared sustainability threats globally among different Indigenous peoples historically and contemporaneously, shared aspects of music culture, and current ways of Indigenous pursuing music sustainability. During colonization, forced geographical relocations and cultural assimilations of Indigenous peoples threatened or extinguished their musical cultures, ecosystems and habitats. This, as well as current pressures of neocolonialism, negatively impacts how Indigenous music cultures can engage traditional Indigenous lands and environments plus ontologies, epistemologies and natural materials emergent from them. As Indigenous peoples are among the most impacted by climate change, and historical Indigenous musics have close relationships with natural environments, new threats to the sustainability of Indigenous music cultures - natural materials needed for musical instruments; ontologies and epistemologies of historical Indigenous places articulated in musics - are emerging, particularly as climate change threatens and changes the ecosystems of traditional Indigenous places. In addition to offering a summary of such general trends of the sustainability of Indigenous music, this review article reflects on how scholarly pursuit of the topic engages and does not engage indigenism, or the promotion and protection of the rights of the world's first peoples.