Sounds, Ecologies, Musics

Aaron S. Allen is Director of the Environment & Sustainability Program and Associate Professor of Musicology at UNC Greensboro.Jeff Todd Titon is Professor of Music, Emeritus, at Brown University, where for many years he led the PhD program in ethnomusicology.

• Chapter 1. Diverse Ecologies for Sound and Music Studies Aaron S. Allen and Jeff Todd Titon PART I: Music, Sound, Ecologies, and the Natural Environment Chapter 2. Ecoörganology: Toward the Ecological Study of Musical Instruments Aaron S. Allen Chapter 3. "Like the Growth Rings of a Tree": A Socio-ecological Systems Model of Past and Envisioned Musical Change in Okinawa, Japan James Edwards and Junko Konishi Chapter 4. Bat City Limits: Music in the Human-Animal Borderlands Julianne Graper Chapter 5. Music, Ecology, and Atmosphere: Environmental Feelings and Sociocultural Crisis in Contemporary Finnish Classical Music Juha Torvinen and Susanna Välimäki PART II: Music, Sound, and Traditional/Indigenous Ecological Knowledges Chapter 6. Haiti, Singing for the Land, Sea, and Sky: Cultivating Ecological Metaphysics and Environmental Awareness through Music Rebecca Dirksen Chapter 7. Coyote Made the Rivers: Indigenous Ecology and the Sacred Continuum in the Interior Northwest Chad S. Hamill/%cnaq'ymi Chapter 8. Resilient Sounds: Rakiura Stewart Island, Aotearoa New Zealand Jennifer C. Post Chapter 9. Relational Capacities, Musical Ecologies: Judith Shatin's Ice Becomes Water Denise Von Glahn PART III: Music, Sound, and Ecologies in Interdisciplinary Perspective Chapter 10. Biologists, Musicians, and the Ecology of Variation Robert Labaree Chapter 11. Recomposing the Sound Commons: The Southern Resident Killer Whales of the Salish Sea Mark Pedelty Chapter 12. The Audible Anthropocene: Sustainable Bridging of Arts, Humanities, and Sciences Scholarship through Sound John E. Quinn, Michele Speitz, Omar Carmenates, and Matthew Burtner Chapter 13. "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold": Impacts of Human Conflict on Musispheres Huib Schippers and Gillian Howell Chapter 14. Eco-trope or Eco-tripe?: Music Ecology Today Jeff Todd Titon Index

Sounds, Ecologies, Musics constitutes an important step for ecomusicology outside of music ecocriticism, enlisting cases of transformative critical approaches that aim to cause significant and lasting changes in the field of ecomusicology, and in music studies more generally.