Current Directions in Ecomusicology

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.

• 1. Ecomusicologies Aaron S. Allen and Kevin Dawe Part 1: Ecological Directions 2. The Ecology of Musical Performance: Towards a Robust Methodology Alice Boyle and Ellen Waterman 3. Ecomusicology, Ethnomusicology, and Soundscape Ecology: Scientific and Musical Responses to Sound Study Margaret Q. Guyette and Jennifer C. Post 4. "No Tree—No Leaf": Applying Resilience Theory to Eucalypt-Derived Musical Traditions Robin Ryan 5. Why Thoreau? Jeff Todd Titon Part 2: Fieldwork Directions 6. Natural Species, Sounds, and Humans in Lowland South America: The Kïsêdjê/Suyá, Their World, and the Nature of Their Musical Experience Anthony Seeger 7. Of Human and Non-human Birds: Indigenous Music Making and Sentient Ecology in Northwestern Mexico Helena Simonett 8. Materials Matter: Towards a Political Ecology of Musical Instrument Making Kevin Dawe 9. "Keepin’ It Real": Musicking and Solidarity, the Hornby Island Vibe Andrew Mark 10. Late Soviet Discourses of Nature and the Natural: Musical Avtentyka, Native Faith, and "Cultural Ecology" after Chornobyl Maria Sonevytsky and Adrian Ivakhiv Part 3: Critical Directions 11. Critical Theory in Ecomusicology James Rhys Edwards 12. Nature and Culture, Noise and Music: Perception and Action W. Luke Windsor 13. Aural Rights and Early Environmental Ethics: Negotiating the Post-War Soundscape Alexandra Hui 14. Music, Television Advertising, and the Green Positioning of the Global Energy Industry Travis Stimeling 15. Pop Ecology: Lessons from Mexico Mark Pedelty Part 4: Textual Directions 16. Ecocriticism and Traditional English Folk Music David Ingram 17. The Peasant’s Voice and the Tourist’s Gaze: Listening to Landscape in Luc Ferrari’s Petite symphonie intuitive pour un paysage de printemps Eric Drott 18. Negotiating Nature and Music through Technology: Ecological Reflections in the Works of Maggi Payne and Laurie Spiegel Sabine Feisst 19. Musical Actions, Political Sounds: Libby Larsen and Composerly Consciousness Denise Von Glahn 20. New Directions: Ecological Imaginations, Soundscapes, and Italian Opera Aaron S. Allen

Winner of the 2018 Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology"...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