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Title Sounds, ecologies, musics / edited by Aaron S. Allen, Jeff Todd Titon
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, Inc, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (329 p.)
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
Summary 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
Subject Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Sound -- Philosophy
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics
Sound (Philosophy)
Music.
Music.
Form Electronic book
Author Allen, Aaron S., editor
Titon, Jeff Todd, 1943- editor.
ISBN 0197546668
9780197546642
0197546641
9780197546666