Catherine Grant

Catherine Grant is a music researcher, author and lecturer with research interests at the intersections of music, cultural sustainability, and matters of social justice. She has collaborated on music research projects with artists and communities in Cambodia, Vietnam, Vanuatu, Indonesia, Western Sahara, Brazil, India, and Australia, and leads the international research project "Sounding Good", involving nine artist-collaborators from five continents. Her books include "Music Endangerment: How Language Maintenance Can Help" (OUP, 2014), the award-winning edited volume (with Huib Schippers) "Sustainable Futures for Music Cultures (OUP, 2016), and the forthcoming book "Sounding Good: Explorations in Music, Cultural Sustainability, and Social Justice," (in press, OUP).

Catherine has presented on her research to audiences in Australia, the UK, the USA, Austria, Norway, Nigeria, Ghana, Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Kazakhstan. Her work on music endangerment and sustainability has featured in media including the Boston Globe, The Australian, The Conversation, The Cambodia Daily, and radio stations in Australia, Ireland, and the USA.