Dear Colleagues (with apologies for cross-posting),

We are delighted to announce that the following open-access Special Issue of the International Journal of Traditional Arts (Vol 4 no. 1, 2022) is now published, and free to read online at https://tradartsjournal.ncl.ac.uk

‘Social justice, human rights, and sustainability of traditional arts’
Guest Editor: Catherine Grant

This special issue illuminates the multifaceted and sometimes surprising relationships between social justice, human rights, and the sustainability of traditional arts. Through six case studies across four continents, it reveals how vibrant and viable traditional arts practices can be formidable instruments in the pursuit of social justice and human rights, but can also work against them. It shows how human rights violations and social injustices threaten the sustainability of traditional arts, but can also counterintuitively underpin them; and how cultural sustainability interventions may have beneficial, but also complex, ramifications for human rights and social justice. Contributing to critical scholarship on the role of vibrant cultural practices in equitable, inclusive, and thriving societies, this special issue offers new insights into the important ethical, methodological, and practical implications of its vast topic. 

Contents:
Introduction to “Social justice, human rights, and sustainability of traditional arts”
Catherine Grant

Wellbeing, cultural protection, and sustainability of traditional music among children and young adult Syrian refugees: The case of Nefes Music School
Guilnard Jean Moufarrej

The importance of the “Mazowsze” National Folk Song and Dance Ensemble in initiatives to sustain and revitalize folk music and dance in Poland.
Katarzyna Ewa Skiba

Music and the African girl child: Sustainability and resistance in Pot Drum Music
Ruth Opara

Far from forgotten: Bharatanatyam, cultural infrastructure, and the conundrum of promoting equity when funding US-based state folklife apprenticeships
Aruna Kharod

Participatory ethnomusicology: An epistemic approach to social justice, human rights, and the sustainability of the traditional arts of minorities
Subash Giri

Revitalizing Potehi practice: Preservation, innovation, and transmission by Rumah Cinwa in contemporary Indonesia
Yuan-Hsin Tung, Dewi Woro Retno Mastuti

The International Journal of Traditional Arts is an international, peer-reviewed gold open access journal that promotes a broad-ranging understanding of the relevance of traditional arts in contemporary social life. We welcome submissions of new, high quality scholarship from ethnomusicology, cultural sociology, anthropology, ethnology, ethnochoreology, cultural policy, folklore, musicology, cultural studies, cultural economics, heritage and tourism studies that focuses upon contemporary policy and practice in the traditional arts.


Dr Matthew Ord

Lecturer in Music
International Centre for Music Studies (ICMuS)
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU 

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