Ecomusicology: music, culture, nature . . . and change in environmental studies?

Allen, Aaron S.

doi:10.1007/s13412-012-0072-1

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“…(Allen 2011). In another publication, Allen argued that environmental scholarship is overly ocularcentric, relying too heavily on the sense of sight to communicate information; thus, ecomusicology, aural by nature, is perhaps a viable yet underutilized medium to address today's environmental challenges by appealing to the human sense of sound (Allen 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Nineteenth century geographer Albert Heim deduced that the measured sounds of a waterfall corresponded with the opening sonority of the final movement of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony (Rehding 2011). Even if Beethoven was unaware of this waterfall connection, capturing the sound of nature itself is a practice that links Beethoven to artists today who create soundscapes and other music that imitates the sounds of nature, such as the works of John Luther Adams based in Alaska (Allen 2012) or Stephen Feld based in Papua New Guinea (Grimley 2011).…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Voice of Iceland: Communicating Climate Science Through Choral Music

Fox¹

2018

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Thank you to the members of the WKU Chorale for premiering Icelandic Sketches with intensity, complexity, and musicality, as well as to Mr. Ken Stein for fearlessly taming a beast of a piano score. Thank you to my parents, Brian and Susan Fox, and to my siblings, Sarah Fox and Jeffrey Fox, for your unending support and for your open ears-both academically and musically. Thanks to the many sponsors of my study abroad and international research engagements in Iceland who helped make this project possible: the WKU Lifetime

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Section: Ecomusicologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Ecomusicologymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Voice of Iceland: Communicating Climate Science Through Choral Music

Fox¹

2018

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“…In Nigeria, statistics shows that the record sales in 1981 was about 4.5 million; in 1986 it was 5.5 million; in 1991, 8.5 million and in 1995, 12 million records were sold nationwide (Gronow & Saunio, 1998). Environmentally, music has been used to advance advocacy towards environmental sustainability (Allen, 2012;Olusegun & Rachel, 2017;Publicover et al, 2018Publicover et al, , 2019Rees, 2016;Silvers, 2015).…”

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Ecomusicology: A socioecological dimension towards acoustically sustainable residential buildings

Okoye

Okolie

Ohaedeghasi

et al. 2020

SJES

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This study examined the socioecological roles of music sounds towards achieving acoustically sustainable residential building. The study adopted a survey research approach where questionnaires were distributed to the occupants of different types of residential buildings in three urban cities of Anambra State Nigeria. The survey data were analysed using Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS) Software. The results revealed that music plays significant roles towards acoustically sustainable building performance with the overall average mean score index of 4.36 and a range of 3.64 to 4.87. But the three most outstanding roles played by music towards acoustically sustainable building performance were: Enabling pleasant sound environment (4.87), improving quality of relaxation and resting (4.83), and increasing acoustic comfort and satisfaction (4.79). The result of one-way ANOVA revealed that music sounds significantly influence acoustical sustainability performance of residential buildings (p-value (.000) < α (0.05); F-ratio (148.377) > F-critical (3.020)); and that there was no significance difference between opinions of residents of the three urban cities in this regard (p-value (0.713) > α (0.05); F-ratio (0.338) < F-critical (3.020)). This study therefore, canvassed for integration of music principles and acoustics into sustainable building design processes as a way of achieving a sustainable building.

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“…For musicians, and artists in general, the secondary qualities or the 'cultural aspects' (Descola 2010) and the ways in which this resource is lived, perceived, represented, and objectified in everyday human life are the real concern. Whether, and to what extent, such viewpoints are or are not dissociated or opposed has previously been addressed (Allen 2012;Descola 2010), but surprisingly, even if papers and books (Landa and Feller 2010;Minami 2009) have been written in order to investigate the close relationship between soil and several cultural aspects (such as arts, literature, language, ethics, cinema, philosophy, and even religion), there is an marked shortage of papers investigating how the soil resource has been represented in popular song. This is a paradoxical situation since many of us undoubtedly recognize the importance of music not only for every day aspects of our life but even during our professional activities.…”

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Songs for our soils. How soil themes have been represented in popular song

Capra

Ganga

Moore

2017

Soil Science and Plant Nutrition

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The soil-culture relationship has been investigated from various points of view. Surprisingly, however, there is a marked absence of papers investigating the way such a fragile resource has been represented in popular song. Many lyrics disclose how such a resource is lived, perceived, represented, and objectified in everyday human life by ordinary people. This paper observes that many of the greatest songwriters and interpreters on the international scene, from all musical genres, have dealt with soil, often from innovative and audacious perspectives. From the prosaic metaphor of the life cycle or as a medium for crops, the soil resource has also been cast as a means of pain, sacrifice, or even redemption. Sometimes seen as a secret world, a helpless creature, treated with a visionary or yet psychedelic approach, the soil has been represented in myriad ways. During the1970s, several protest songs, which had the ability to raise awareness and mobilize millions of people in favor of the environmentalists cause, were based on ideological positions closely connected to soil issues, such as soil sealing and erosion. These (soil) songs are now considered the first environmentalist songs in the history of music. As soil scientists, we have often serious problems in communicating soil issues for a global audience, and, consequently, the worldwide political agenda often shows a dramatic lack of interest in such concerns. It is perhaps surprising that popular songs have still not become more common methods for sharing, educating, and sensitizing ordinary people, students, and scholars from every field of study, about soil concerns. Without trying to claim it as some sort of panacea, popular song (as already understood by ecologists and climatologists) can represent a powerful means of increasing public visibility and awareness about soil resource.

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Ecomusicology: music, culture, nature . . . and change in environmental studies?

Cited by 17 publications

References 17 publications

The Voice of Iceland: Communicating Climate Science Through Choral Music

The Voice of Iceland: Communicating Climate Science Through Choral Music

Ecomusicology: A socioecological dimension towards acoustically sustainable residential buildings

Songs for our soils. How soil themes have been represented in popular song

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