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<font face="Arial">Dear RNLD list colleagues,</font></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font color="#282828" face="Arial">I</font><font face="Arial"><font color="#282828">’m posting this message in the knowledge that many of you engage closely with the music and music-makers of the communities
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<font color="#282828" face="Arial">I</font><font face="Arial"><font color="#282828"> would like to warmly invite you to participate in a questionnaire on 'music vitality and endangerment’, loosely based on the Linguistic Vitality and Diversity Survey UNESCO
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<font face="Arial"><font color="#282828" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The</font><span style="color: rgb(40, 40, 40);"> questionnaire</span><span style="color: rgb(22, 25, 30); line-height: 18px;"> asks your perspectives on the level of endangerment (or vitality)
of a music genre of your choice. More information and the survey itself can be found here:</span></font></div>
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<font face="Arial"><a href="http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1629148/Music-Vitality-and-Endangerment" id="lnk37273">http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1629148/Music-Vitality-and-Endangerment</a><span style="color: rgb(40, 40, 40);"> </span></font></div>
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<font face="Arial">This research is part of my postdoctoral project at the University of Newcastle, Australia. <span style="color: rgb(22, 25, 30); line-height: 18px;">The project aims to assess the usefulness of a survey instrument to assess music vitality
and viability, and to help build a picture of the strength of the specific genres represented.</span><font></font></font></div>
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<font color="#282828" face="Arial">I</font><font face="Arial" style="color: rgb(40, 40, 40);"><font> would be most grateful if you would consider passing on this invitation to any colleagues who work in the area of music. </font></font></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-family: Arial;">The survey will be open for the next 8-10 weeks.
</span><font face="Arial" style="color: rgb(40, 40, 40);">For more information, please contact the researcher, Dr Catherine Grant (<a href="mailto:catherine.grant@newcastle.edu.au">catherine.grant@newcastle.edu.au</a>).</font></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Arial">Many thanks,</font></span></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(40, 40, 40); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 254, 254);"><font face="Arial">Catherine Grant</font></span></div>
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<font face="Arial">Dr Catherine Grant, </font></div>
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<font face="Arial">Postdoctoral Researcher</font></div>
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<font face="Arial">Author: <i><a tabindex="0" href="http://global.oup.com/academic/product/music-endangerment-9780199352180?cc=au&lang=en">Music Endangerment: How Language Maintenance Can Hel</a>p (OUP, June 2014)</i></font></div>
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<font face="Arial"><span style="color: rgb(40, 40, 40);">School of Creative Arts, </span><span style="color: rgb(40, 40, 40);">Faculty of Education and Arts</span></font></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(40, 40, 40);"><font face="Arial">The University of Newcastle (UoN)</font></span></div>
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