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.

土著音乐的可持续性形成了一个凝聚的概念，这是由于历史上和同时期全球不同土著人民之间存在共享的可持续性威胁，音乐文化的共同方面以及土著人追求音乐可持续性的当前方式所致。在殖民期间，土著人民被迫进行地理迁移和文化同化，威胁或消灭了他们的音乐文化，生态系统和栖息地。这以及新殖民主义的当前压力，对土著音乐文化如何与传统的土著土地和环境以及从中出现的本体论，认识论和自然材料进行互动产生了负面影响。由于土著人民受气候变化的影响最大，而且历史悠久的土著音乐与自然环境有着密切的关系，对土著音乐文化可持续性的新威胁-乐器所需的天然材料；音乐中表达的历史土著地方的本体论和认识论正在兴起，尤其是在气候变化威胁和改变传统土著地方的生态系统时。除了提供对土著音乐可持续发展的一般趋势的概述外，本文还回顾了该主题在学术上的追求如何吸引和不吸引土著人民，或促进和保护世界第一民族的权利。特别是在气候变化威胁和改变传统土著地区生态系统的情况下。除了提供对土著音乐可持续发展的一般趋势的概述外，本文还回顾了该主题在学术上的追求如何吸引和不吸引土著人民，或促进和保护世界第一民族的权利。特别是在气候变化威胁和改变传统土著地区生态系统的情况下。除了提供对土著音乐可持续发展的一般趋势的概述外，本文还回顾了该主题在学术上的追求如何吸引和不吸引土著人民，或促进和保护世界第一民族的权利。