Popular Music and the Anthropocene

Ribac, François; Harkins, Paul

doi:10.1017/s0261143019000539

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“…Artistic practice can and does offer specific contributions to such issues. For instance, music becomes more and more relevant for debates on climate change and environmental pollution (Ribac and Harkins 2020;Wodak 2018;Kagan and Kirchberg 2016), Artistic Research can offer a promising view connecting climate research with aesthetic forms (Kagan 2015;Zaddach 2023).…”

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Artistic Research in Popular Music: A Critical Evaluation of Potentials and Challenges

Zaddach

2023

IASPM Journal

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The article discusses artistic research as a new paradigm. For this purpose, a contextualizing analysis on practice research is first conducted. Thereby, the essential points of criticism and potentials of artistic research are elaborated from the point of view of epistemic injustice and decolonizing approaches. Following on from this, artistic research is discussed as a promising approach to research and teaching in popular music. Topics and perspectives are suggested, and ultimately a call is made for collaborative research to develop a ‘mosaic epistemology’ and ‘epistemological pluralism’.

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Artistic Research in Popular Music: A Critical Evaluation of Potentials and Challenges

Zaddach

2023

IASPM Journal

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“…Air remains largely inconspicuous, always present and breathed, but rarely mentioned or viewed as sufficiently "material" to warrant much attention; a symptom perhaps of a set of "elemental assumptions" (Jackson and Fannin 2011: 436) which frame matter as solid or visible, rather than gaseous. This is no doubt also bolstered by the notion that humans are a "geologic force" (Ribac and Harkins 2020), articulated through the not unproblematic term "the Anthropocene" (Crutzen and Stoermer 2000). The geological paradigm the Anthropocene invites has much to offer musicological thought by way of emphasising the long-lasting impacts of human activities, including music (Daughtry 2020;Størvold 2020).…”

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Musical ecologies of grief: breathing and environmental justice in Love Ssega’s “Our World (Fight for Air)”

Bayliss Hawitt

2022

IASPM Journal

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This paper will consider how ecological grief is managed in “Our World (Fight for Air)”, a single released in 2021 by British-Ugandan musician Love Ssega, which addresses the deadly consequences of air pollution on the South Circular road in London. In light of sparse musicological engagement with ecological grief and air, I bring together the concepts of a “political ecology of air-and-breathing-bodies” (Allen 2020) and “weathering” (Neimanis and Walker 2014) to illustrate that, in Ssega’s work, (safe) breathing becomes political, traversed by vectors of race and class. Paying attention to air and breathing facilitates an understanding of how Ssega’s music can help us grieve well, on scales attuned to both individual tragedy and the enormous, distributed nature of environmental pollution. I argue that this music shapes “ecologies of grief” which are communal and therefore can help us engage with loss, not merely as mourners, but as makers of safer futures.

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Music Declares an Emergency: Music Industry Studies in the Context of a Changing Climate

Nolan

2024

The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Music Industry Studies

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Popular Music and the Anthropocene

Cited by 6 publications

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Artistic Research in Popular Music: A Critical Evaluation of Potentials and Challenges

Artistic Research in Popular Music: A Critical Evaluation of Potentials and Challenges

Musical ecologies of grief: breathing and environmental justice in Love Ssega’s “Our World (Fight for Air)”

Music Declares an Emergency: Music Industry Studies in the Context of a Changing Climate

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