Sustainability and Sound: Ecomusicology Inside and Outside the Academy

Allen, Aaron S.; Titon, Jeff Todd; Glahn, Denise Von

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“…As an emerging area of discipline, ecomusicology or ecocritical musicology considers the interconnections between music, nature, and culture, including between non-human sound worlds and human sound worlds (Garett, 2013). It also reflects the overlap of the physical and cultural environments as mediated through sound (Allen et al, 2014). In this regard, Taylor & Hurley (2015) found acoustic ecology and ecomusicology as one of the five contemporary and emerging fields of interest that connect music and environment.…”

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Ecomusicology: A socioecological dimension towards acoustically sustainable residential buildings

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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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Ecomusicology: A socioecological dimension towards acoustically sustainable residential buildings

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“…The ecomusicological “four-legged stool” model for sustainability (Allen, Titon, & Von Glahn, 2014), then, provides a unique framework for assessing the ways in which incorporating instrument craft might lead to reconnection and ultimately more-sustainable consumption of musical instruments. While traditional tripartite models consider negotiations between the environment, ethics and economics (Collin & Collin, 2010), ecomusicology adds the area of “aesthetics” in order to suggest that efforts in sustainability should also be beautiful and enjoyable.…”

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Reconnecting the music-making experience through musician efforts in instrument craft

Smith

2018

International Journal of Music Education

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Musical settings that require consumers to construct their own musical instruments serve as potential sites of reconnection between musicians, the musical instruments they make, the natural resources that comprise those instruments, and the labor required to produce them. When musicians reconnect in these ways, they are able to understand and appreciate their musical instruments in new and meaningful ways. This can allow for heightened efforts in instrument care and maintenance; it can also allow for a greater sensitivity to environmental and ethical issues surrounding musical instruments. Data are drawn from a collegiate-level academic percussion musical setting where the musicians composed for and performed on the instruments they made themselves from mostly recycled materials. Group and individual semi-structured interviews and participant observation conducted over the course of summer and fall 2014 reveal the ways these reconnections are possible. This paper is in response to Matsunobu’s (2013) call to further establish instrument craft as an area within music education curricula.

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“…Alongside the industry-led work outlined above, there is an emerging body of academic research examining music festivals and environmental sustainability (e.g. Mair and Laing 2010, 2012, 2013; Cummings 2014; Jones 2014); other areas of music production such as recording (Pedelty 2012; Devine 2015); and a broader movement in scholarship aiming to explore the wide-ranging relationships between music, nature and culture (Rehding 2002; Allen et al ., 2014; Allen and Dawe 2016). Our research can be situated within this growing conversation, but focuses on the case study of music festival communities in Scotland.…”

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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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Sustainability and Sound: Ecomusicology Inside and Outside the Academy

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Ecomusicology: A socioecological dimension towards acoustically sustainable residential buildings

Ecomusicology: A socioecological dimension towards acoustically sustainable residential buildings

Reconnecting the music-making experience through musician efforts in instrument craft

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

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