Sounds, Ecologies, Musics
- Editor: Allen, Aaron S.
- Editor: Titon, Jeff Todd
Sounds, Ecologies, Musics
- Editor: Allen, Aaron S.
- Editor: Titon, Jeff Todd
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Sounds, Ecologies, Musics poses exciting challenges and provides fresh opportunities for scholars, scientists, environmental activists, musicians, and listeners to consider music and sound from ecological standpoints. Authors in Part I examine the natural and built environment and how music and sound are woven into it, how the environment enables music and sound, and how the natural and cultural production of music and sound in turn impact the environment. In Part II, contributors consider music and sound in relation to ecological knowledges that appear to conflict with, yet may be viewed as complementary to, Western science: traditional and Indigenous ecological and environmental knowledges. Part III features multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches by scholars, scientists, and practitioners who probe the ecological imaginary regarding the complex ideas and contested keywords that characterize ecomusicology: sound, music, culture, society, environment, and nature. A common theme across the book is the idea of diverse ecologies. Once confined to the natural sciences, the word "ecology" is common today in the social sciences, humanities, and arts - yet its diverse uses have become imprecise and confusing. Engaging the conflicting and complementary meanings of "ecology" requires embracing a both/and approach. Diverse ecologies are illustrated in the methodological, terminological, and topical variety of the chapters as well as the contributors' choice of sources and their disciplinary backgrounds. In times of mounting human and planetary crises, Sounds, Ecologies, Musics challenges disciplinarity and broadens the interdisciplinary field of ecomusicologies. These theoretical and practical studies expand sonic, scholarly, and political activism from the diversity-equity-inclusion agenda of social justice to embrace the more diverse and inclusive agenda of ecocentric ecojustice.
Contents
- Sounds, Ecologies, Musics
- Table of Contents
- Chapter 1. Aaron S. Allen (UNC Greensboro) and Jeff Todd Titon (Brown University): Ecologies for Music and Sound Studies
- PART I: Music, Sound, Ecologies, and the Natural Environment
- Chapter 2. Aaron S. Allen (UNC Greensboro): Ecoorganology: Toward the Ecological Study of Musical Instruments
- Chapter 3. James Edwards (SINUS Markt- und Sozialforschung) and Junko Konishi (Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts): 'Like the Growth Rings of a Tree': A Socio-ecological Systems Model of Past and Envisioned Musical Change in Okinawa, Japan
- Chapter 4. Julianne Graper (University of Texas at Austin): Bat City Limits: Music in the Human-Animal Borderlands
- Chapter 5. Juha Torvinen and Susanna Valimaki (University of Helsinki): Music, Ecology, and Atmosphere: Environmental Feelings and Socio-cultural Crisis in Contemporary Finnish Classical Music
- PART II: Music, Sound, and Traditional/Indigenous Ecological Knowledges
- Chapter 6. Rebecca Dirksen (Indiana University): Haiti, Singing for the Land, Sea, and Sky: Cultivating Ecological Metaphysics and Environmental Awareness through Music
- Chapter 7. Chad Hamill (Northern Arizona University): Coyote Made the Rivers: Indigenous Ecology and the Sacred Continuum in the Interior Northwest
- Chapter 8. Jennifer C. Post (University of Arizona): Resilient Sounds: Rakiura Stewart Island, Aotearoa New Zealand
- Chapter 9. Denise Von Glahn (Florida State University): Relational Capacities, Musical Ecologies: Judith Shatin's Ice Becomes Water
- PART III: Music, Sound, and Ecologies in Interdisciplinary Perspective
- Chapter 10. Robert Labaree (New England Conservatory of Music): Biologists, Musicians, and the Ecology of Variation
- Chapter 11. Mark Pedelty (University of Minnesota): Recomposing the Sound Commons: The Southern Resident Killer Whales of the Salish Sea
- Chapter 12. John E. Quinn, Michele Speitz and Omar Carmenates (Furman University), and Matthew Burtner (University of Virginia): The Audible Anthropocene: Sustainable Bridging of Arts, Humanities, and Sciences Scholarship Through Sound
- Chapter 13. Huib Schippers (Independent Scholar) and Gillian Howell (University of Melbourne): 'Things fall apart
- the centre cannot hold': Impacts of Human Conflict on Musispheres
- Chapter 14. Jeff Todd Titon (Brown University): Eco-trope or Eco-tripe?: Music Ecology Today
- Index
