Connects music and sonic cultures with social, environmental, and ecological justices
Offers pioneering explorations of sound, music, and environment from ecological perspectives
Offers ecologically informed case studies of musical and sonic cultures as connected to natural environments
Distinguishes scientific ecological, environmentalist, and humanistic ecological studies as relevant to music and sound
In Sounds, Ecologies, Musics, authors pose exciting challenges and provide fresh opportunities for scholars, scientists, environmental activists, and musicians to consider music and sound from ecological standpoints. The book covers topics such as how environment enables music and sound, how music and sound relate to Western environmental science, and mutidisciplinary collaborations among scholars.
Contents
Aaron S. Allen and Jeff Todd Titon: Chapter 1. Diverse Ecologies for Sound and Music Studies
PART I: Music, Sound, Ecologies, and the Natural Environment
Aaron S. Allen: Chapter 2. Ecoorganology: Toward the Ecological Study of Musical Instruments
James Edwards and Junko Konishi: Chapter 3. Like the Growth Rings of a Tree: A Socio-ecological Systems Model of Past and Envisioned Musical Change in Okinawa, Japan
Julianne Graper: Chapter 4. Bat City Limits: Music in the Human-Animal Borderlands
Juha Torvinen and Susanna Valimaki: Chapter 5. Music, Ecology, and Atmosphere: Environmental Feelings and Sociocultural Crisis in Contemporary Finnish Classical Music
PART II: Music, Sound, and Traditional/Indigenous Ecological Knowledges
Rebecca Dirksen: Chapter 6. Haiti, Singing for the Land, Sea, and Sky: Cultivating Ecological Metaphysics and Environmental Awareness through Music
Chad S. Hamill/cnaq'ymi: Chapter 7. Coyote Made the Rivers: Indigenous Ecology and the Sacred Continuum in the Interior Northwest
Jennifer C. Post: Chapter 8. Resilient Sounds: Rakiura Stewart Island, Aotearoa New Zealand
Denise Von Glahn: Chapter 9. Relational Capacities, Musical Ecologies: Judith Shatin's Ice Becomes Water
PART III: Music, Sound, and Ecologies in Interdisciplinary Perspective
Robert Labaree: Chapter 10. Biologists, Musicians, and the Ecology of Variation
Mark Pedelty: Chapter 11. Recomposing the Sound Commons: The Southern Resident Killer Whales of the Salish Sea
John E. Quinn, Michele Speitz, Omar Carmenates, and Matthew Burtner: Chapter 12. The Audible Anthropocene: Sustainable Bridging of Arts, Humanities, and Sciences Scholarship through Sound
Huib Schippers and Gillian Howell: Chapter 13. Things fall apart
the centre cannot hold: Impacts of Human Conflict on Musispheres
Jeff Todd Titon: Chapter 14. Eco-trope or Eco-tripe?: Music Ecology Today