Sounds, ecologies, musics /

"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 an...

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Group Author: Allen, Aaron S. (Editor); Titon, Jeff Todd, 1943- (Editor)
Published: Oxford University Press,
Publisher Address: New York, NY :
Publication Dates: [2023]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Summary: "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" --
Carrier Form: viii, 313 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780197546659
019754665X
Index Number: ML3800
CLC: J60-02
Call Number: J60-02/S724
Contents: Diverse ecologies for sound and music studies /
Music, sound, ecologies, and the natural environment.
Ecörganology : toward the ecological study of musical instruments /
"Like the growth rings of a tree" : a socio-ecological systems model of past and envisioned musical change in Okinawa, Japan /
Bat City limits : music in the human-animal borderlands /
Music, ecology, and atmosphere : environmental feelings and sociocultural crisis in contemporary Finnish classical music /
Music, sound, and traditional/indigenous ecological knowledges.
Haiti, singing for the land, sea, and sky : cultivating ecological metaphysics and environmental awareness through music /
Coyote made the rivers : indigenous ecology and the sacred continuum in the interior Northwest /
Resilient sounds : Rakiura Stewart Island, Aotearoa New Zealand /
Relational capacities, musical ecologies : Judith Shatin's Ice Becomes Water /
Music, sound, and ecologies in interdisciplinary perspective.
Biologists, musicians, and the ecology of variation /
Recomposing the sound commons : the southern resident killer whales of the Salish Sea /
The audible anthropocene : sustainable bridging of arts, humanities, and sciences scholarship through sound /
Eco-trope or eco-tripe? : music ecology today /