Don't Organize, Mourn: Environmental Loss and Musicking

Mark, Andrew

doi:10.2979/ethicsenviro.21.2.03

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“…They expressed the contemporary problems related with being alienated from nature and were reflective about the instrumental view on nature (Smith, 2001;Linzey and Linzey, 2018). The majority of the poems created by the students illustrated an urge for change, but also showed elements of musing, which could be seen as a melancholic version of musicking (Mark, 2016). This corresponds with Faulkner's (2020) point that writing poetry is beneficial when one is facing difficult times.…”

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“…A focus on mourning and melancholy is also Mark's (2016) advice. Mark (2016) was inspired by Joe Hill, a labor activist, songwriter and member of the "Industrial Workers of the World" an international labor organization that was founded in Chicago. Hill was born in Sweden, but immigrated to the United States of America.…”

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“…To prevent this, Mark suggests relying on music. Music can give hope, strength, renewal, but Mark (2016) points to another possibility. He borrows the term musicking from Christopher Small (1998, p. 9), emphasizing music as a process and not as a noun; a process in which everybody can take part: the performer, the listener, the dancer, the one who is selling the tickets, the cleaners, because they are all contributing to the process of making music.…”

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“…What musicking is to Mark (2016), is storytelling to Walter Benjamin (1955a). In his essay "The Storyteller" Benjamin (1955a, p. 83) focusses on the loss of storytelling and thereby the loss of wisdom.…”

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The Role of Poetry in Promoting a Sustainability Mindset: Walter Benjamin as a Guide Toward a Slow Journey

Molderez¹,

Baraniuk²,

Lambrechts³

2021

Front. Sustain.

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The emergence of highly complex sustainability challenges in modern society has led to the necessity of searching for more effective approaches to education for sustainable development. Research has shown that reflection leads toward more profound levels of engagement with respect to sustainable actions. Therefore, higher education has a role to play in stimulating reflection in light of sustainability. Art-based techniques, which have not been included alongside traditional teaching methods, have begun to gain the attention of researchers and teachers in higher education as they produce a deeper impact and involvement and can have a positive influence on the minds and hearts of the students. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that poetry can contribute to integrating the arts and humanities in management education. The potential effect of poetry on business management majors is being explored as a part of their Corporate Social Responsibility course. Poetry has considerable potential as an innovative approach to teach sustainability, but it is rather unusual in business education. Poetry was chosen as an enabler for reflection and emotions. This original teaching project was followed by a research project relying on reflective assignments. A rereading of Walter Benjamin's Illuminations from the perspective of sustainability studies was a source of inspiration, in particular “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” “The Storyteller” and “Unpacking My Library.” The paper assumes that Benjamin's ideas relate to a slow journey involving “awakening,” “wisdom” and “in a process,” three elements that are at the core of promoting a sustainability mindset. The research project consisted of four reflection assignments students had to comply with: reading and interpreting poetry; searching for a poem which would be most appropriate for the discussed sustainability topic; creating their own poem and reflecting on the whole task. The research took place in the second semester of 2020 and first semester of 2021, all in COVID-19 pandemic context. Students' participation was not mandatory, but the majority joined. Their perceptions and impressions reinforce the existing knowledge about the emotional power of poetry to encourage reflection. The results show that poetry plays a relevant role in encouraging future managers to develop a frame of mind that incorporates sustainability and responsibility. Business students are open to this approach because it adds a new and unexpected dimension to their studies. Despite the urge to integrate reflections, this is still an exception for the majority of management courses. The results suggest that poetry is a relevant instrument to promote a more sustainable mindset among future managers. Paradoxically, by emphasizing a slow journey, i.e., allowing time for integrating reflective practices, a transition toward sustainability in daily managerial processes can be accelerated.

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Baraniuk²,

Lambrechts³

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Do music festival communities address environmental sustainability and how? A Scottish case study

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This article discusses the findings of an Arts and Humanities Research Council project researching how music festival communities in Scotland can address issues of environmental sustainability and climate change. It investigates how music festival communities are constructed with a focus on what role, if any, they might play in responding to the global challenge of environmental sustainability. Using music festivals in Scotland as a case study, we employed a variety of research methods to interrogate different constituents in music festival communities about their views and behaviours regarding climate change and environmental sustainability. These included festival audiences via onsite questionnaires; festival organisers and promoters via interviews and focus groups; and musicians via creative practice-led research. We conclude that rather than necessarily being a site for progressive or utopian socio-cultural experimentation (as they are occasionally portrayed in festival literature), music festival communities engage in complex and often contradictory behaviours when it comes to responding to – and making sense of – their own complicity in social challenges such as climate change.

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Bearing worlds: learning to live-with climate change

Verlie

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Don't Organize, Mourn: Environmental Loss and Musicking

Cited by 7 publications

References 38 publications

The Role of Poetry in Promoting a Sustainability Mindset: Walter Benjamin as a Guide Toward a Slow Journey

The Role of Poetry in Promoting a Sustainability Mindset: Walter Benjamin as a Guide Toward a Slow Journey

Do music festival communities address environmental sustainability and how? A Scottish case study

Bearing worlds: learning to live-with climate change

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