Current Directions in Ecomusicology: Music, Culture, Nature (Routledge Research in Music) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138062499 ISBN 13: 9781138062498

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

This volume is the first sustained examination of the complex perspectives that comprise ecomusicology―the study of the intersections of music/sound, culture/society, and nature/environment. Twenty-two 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. Emerging from the whole is a view of ecomusicology as a field, a place where many disciplines come together. The topics addressed 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 healthy ecosystem, the field of ecomusicology is dynamic, but this edited collection provides a snapshot of it in a formative period. Each chapter is short, designed to be accessible to the nonspecialist, and includes extensive bibliographies; some chapters also provide further materials on a companion website: http://www.ecomusicology.info/. An introduction and interspersed editorial summaries help guide readers through four current directions―ecological, fieldwork, critical, and textual―in the field of ecomusicology.

About this title

Review:

"...the book is an excellent resource for instructors wanting either to incorporate an ecomusicological aspect into a course, or to create an entire course centered on ecomusicology, music and place, or music and the environment."

- Jacob A. Cohen, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1138062499
• ISBN 13: 9781138062498
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 322
• Editor: Allen Aaron S.