Music-Making Materials

Natural Resource Use and Sustainability in Musical Instrument Making
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-96424-140-5
Verlag: Universitätsverlag Hildesheim

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 370 g

Reihe: Studies in Music

Sustainability in music is an important area of research that spans multiple academic disciplines, fields of study, and domains of practical and specialised knowledge. Ecomusicological scholars, along with resource managers and environmental geographers, highlight that relationships with materiality, natural materials, and natural environments are central to the sustainability of music, particularly with regard to musical instrument making. This edited volume offers a comprehensive overview of current research on the use of natural resources and sustainability aspects in musical instrument making. It brings together case studies from diverse instrument-making contexts, contributed by scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds. The case studies explore questions related to the use of natural materials in musical instrument making, the associated sustainability challenges, and possible approaches to address these challenges at local, regional, and global scales.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hachmeyer, Sebastian

Lichtenberg, Silke

Über Autor(innen)

Hachmeyer, Sebastian
Sebastian Hachmeyer is a DFG-funded Walter-Benjamin postdoctoral fellow at the Center for World Music (CWM) at the University of Hildesheim. Sebastian is an ethnomusicologist, human ecologist, and environmental geographer who specialises in ecomusicology, music and environmental studies, environmental ethnomusicology, music sustainability, and the anthropology of music and environment. He is currently carrying out a transdisciplinary and applied ecomusicological research project titled “From Native Bamboos to Indigenous Flutes: Applied Ecomusicology and Sustainability in Highland Flute Making in the Bolivian Andes.” He earned his PhD in Music/Ethnomusicology and Environmental Geography at Royal Holloway University of London.

Lichtenberg, Silke
Silke Lichtenberg is a researcher with a double master’s degree in Natural Resource Management and Development from TH Köln, Germany, and Environmental Sciences from the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí, Mexico. In addition to her academic background, she is a professional violinmaker, having graduated from the violinmaking school in Mittenwald, Germany. She is passionate about exploring the complex interrelations between nature, people, culture, music, and traditional craftsmanship. Currently, she is finalising her PhD in Geography at the University of Passau, focusing on “Forest Protection versus Musical Instrument Making: Sustainable Management of Ecosystems to preserve Natural and Cultural Heritage.” As a senior scientific advisor at the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, in the scientific authority for CITES in Germany, she works on the conservation of internationally traded CITES-listed timber species and conducts species-specific risk assessments related to sustainable forest management.