Sounds, ecologies, musics / edited by Aaron S. Allen and Jeff Todd Titon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Allen, Aaron S., editor.

Titon, Jeff Todd, 1943- editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Sound--Philosophy.

Sound.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

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:

Cover

Sounds,

Copyright

Contents

List of Editors and Contributors

About the Companion Website

1. Diverse Ecologies for Sound and Music Studies

PART I: MUSIC, SOUND, ECOLOGIES, AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT

2. Ecoörganology: Toward the Ecological Study of Musical Instruments

3. "Like the Growth Rings of a Tree": A Socio-​ecological Systems Model of Past and Envisioned Musical Change in Okinawa, Japan

4. Bat City Limits: Music in the Human-​Animal Borderlands

5. Music, Ecology, and Atmosphere: Environmental Feelings and Sociocultural Crisis in Contemporary Finnish Classical Music

PART II: MUSIC, SOUND, AND TRADITIONAL/ INDIGENOUS ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGES

6. Haiti, Singing for the Land, Sea, and Sky: Cultivating Ecological Metaphysics and Environmental Awareness through Music

7. Coyote Made the Rivers: Indigenous Ecology and the Sacred Continuum in the Interior Northwest

8. Resilient Sounds: Rakiura Stewart Island, Aotearoa New Zealand

9. Relational Capacities, Musical Ecologies: Judith Shatin's Ice Becomes Water

PART III: MUSIC, SOUND, AND ECOLOGIES IN INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE

10. Biologists, Musicians, and the Ecology of Variation

11. Recomposing the Sound Commons: The Southern Resident Killer Whales of the Salish Sea

12. The Audible Anthropocene: Sustainable Bridging of Arts, Humanities, and Sciences Scholarship through Sound

13. "Things fall apart

the centre cannot hold": Impacts of Human Conflict on Musispheres

14. Eco-​Trope or Eco-​Tripe?: Music Ecology Today

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 14, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Allen, Aaron S. Sounds, Ecologies, Musics

ISBN:

0-19-754668-4

0-19-754666-8

OCLC:

1396062222