Allen / Dawe Current Directions in Ecomusicology

Music, Nature, Environment
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-317-61952-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 322 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Research in Music

This volume is the first sustained examination of the complex perspectives on ecomusicology — the study of the intersections of music/sound, culture/society, and nature/environment. Twenty-three authors provide a range of theoretical, methodological, and empirical chapters representing disciplines such as anthropology, biology, ecology, environmental studies, ethnomusicology, history, literature, musicology, performance studies, and psychology. They bring their specialized training to bear on interdisciplinary topics, both individually and in collaboration. What emerges from the whole is a view of ecomusicology that the editors argue is a field, a place where many disciplines come together. The topics address in this volume — contemporary composers and traditional musics, acoustic ecology and politicized soundscapes, material sustainability and environmental crisis, familiar and unfamiliar sounds, local places and global warming, birds and mice, hearing and listening, biomusic and soundscape ecology, and more — engage with conversations in the various realms of music study as well as in environmental studies and cultural studies. As with any good ecosystem, the field of ecomusicology is dynamic, but this edited collection provides a snapshot of it in a formative period. Each chapter is short and designed to be accessible to the non-specialist; and extensive bibliographies are included with further materials provided on a companion website. An introduction together with interspersed editorial summaries helps guide readers through this particular instance of the field of ecomusicology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Allen, Aaron S.

Dawe, Kevin

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Ecomusicologies Aaron S. Allen and Kevin Dawe Part 1: Ecological Directions 2. The Ecology of Musical Performance: Towards a Robust Methodology Alice Boyle and Ellen Waterman 3. Ecomusicology, Ethnomusicology, and Soundscape Ecology: Scientific and Musical Responses to Sound Study Margaret Q. Guyette and Jennifer C. Post 4. "No Tree—No Leaf": Applying Resilience Theory to Eucalypt-Derived Musical Traditions Robin Ryan 5. Why Thoreau? Jeff Todd Titon Part 2: Fieldwork Directions 6. Natural Species, Sounds, and Humans in Lowland South America: The Kïsêdjê/Suyá, Their World, and the Nature of Their Musical Experience Anthony Seeger 7. Of Human and Non-human Birds: Indigenous Music Making and Sentient Ecology in Northwestern Mexico Helena Simonett 8. Materials Matter: Towards a Political Ecology of Musical Instrument Making Kevin Dawe 9. "Keepin’ It Real": Musicking and Solidarity, the Hornby Island Vibe Andrew Mark 10. Late Soviet Discourses of Nature and the Natural: Musical Avtentyka, Native Faith, and "Cultural Ecology" after Chornobyl Maria Sonevytsky and Adrian Ivakhiv Part 3: Critical Directions 11. Critical Theory in Ecomusicology James Rhys Edwards 12. Nature and Culture, Noise and Music: Perception and Action W. Luke Windsor 13. Aural Rights and Early Environmental Ethics: Negotiating the Post-War Soundscape Alexandra Hui 14. Music, Television Advertising, and the Green Positioning of the Global Energy Industry Travis Stimeling 15. Pop Ecology: Lessons from Mexico Mark Pedelty Part 4: Textual Directions 16. Ecocriticism and Traditional English Folk Music David Ingram 17. The Peasant’s Voice and the Tourist’s Gaze: Listening to Landscape in Luc Ferrari’s Petite symphonie intuitive pour un paysage de printemps Eric Drott 18. Negotiating Nature and Music through Technology: Ecological Reflections in the Works of Maggi Payne and Laurie Spiegel Sabine Feisst 19. Musical Actions, Political Sounds: Libby Larsen and Composerly Consciousness Denise Von Glahn 20. New Directions: Ecological Imaginations, Soundscapes, and Italian Opera Aaron S. Allen

Über Autor(innen)

Aaron S. Allen is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA.

Kevin Dawe is Professor of Ethnomusicology and Head of the School of Music and Fine Art at the University of Kent, UK.