Short description:

Revoicing Intangible Cultural Heritage draws upon an original, wide-ranging dataset to show that the dynamics and ethics of participation in European national minority cultures? intangible cultural heritage (ICH) are more nuanced than has previously been articulated.

Long description:

Revoicing Intangible Cultural Heritage draws upon an original, wide-ranging dataset to show that the dynamics and ethics of participation in European national minority cultures? intangible cultural heritage (ICH) are more nuanced than has previously been articulated.

Arguing for an approach to analysing ICH that reflects societal change in regions that are historically those of national minorities, contributions to the volume focus on three regions across four countries. This allows for comparative exploration of exemplar contexts that span a range of circumstances in which European national minority cultures thrive and strive for voice and recognition. It explores how a wide range of people engage with national minorities? ICH and seeks a better understanding of the ethical and practical dimensions of this participation. It proposes a heritage literate ?revoicing? of ICH: to create socially positive pathways to resilient ICH, and in turn ensure ICH is an arena where these positive social relations are shaped as part of an evolving ecosystem into the future.

Revoicing Intangible Cultural Heritage takes an interdisciplinary approach ideally placed to interrogate the interplay of different groups with ICH from multiple perspectives. This makes the book essential reading for academics and students working in heritage studies, sociolinguistics, cultural and event studies, sociology, creative practice, and cultural geography.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Intangible cultural heritage at the margins of Europe; Part I CONTEXTS; 1. Revoicing intangible cultural heritage; 2. ?By the community, for the community?: Boundary narratives, boundary work, and intangible cultural heritage; 3. Heritage discourse and voices of change; Part II ANALYSES; Voices; 4. ?Torches aloft? to Glastonbury: the discursive construction of heritage events in Cornwall; 5. Intangible cultural heritage as a tool for sustaining language: a Livonian case study; 6. ?You get an upgrade in Frisian?. Processes of identity formation and negotiation around Frisian theatre; Spaces; 7. What is the post-industrial rural for? Intangible cultural heritage, rural world-making and core-periphery imaginaries; 8. Revoicing Livonian cultural landscapes on opposite sides of the Gulf of R?ga; 9. Taking up space: physical and affective geographies of intangible cultural heritage events; Negotiations; 10. Rules of engagement at intangible cultural heritage events; 11. The filmmakers? gaze: navigating the zone of cultural osmosis in capturing heritage events; 12. Negotiations and co-creations in the resourcing of intangible cultural heritage s: Towards resilient intangible cultural heritage and positive social relationsevents; Part III FUTURES; 13. Revoicing beyond Europe? Conversations in global contexts; 14. Revoicing cultural landscape