Cultural Sustainabilities: Music, Media, Language, Advocacy

by Timothy J Cooley (Editor), Jeff Todd Titon (Foreword by), Aaron S. Allen (Contribution by), Michael B. Bakan (Contribution by), Robert Baron (Contribution by)

Overview

Environmental sustainability and human cultural sustainability are inextricably linked. Reversing damaging human impact on the global environment is ultimately a cultural question, and as with politics, the answers are often profoundly local. Cultural Sustainabilities presents twenty-three essays by musicologists and ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, folklorists, ethnographers, documentary filmmakers, musicians, artists, and activists, each asking a particular question or presenting a specific local case study about cultural and environmental sustainability. Contributing to the environmental humanities, the authors embrace and even celebrate human engagement with ecosystems, though with a profound sense of collective responsibility created by the emergence of the Anthropocene. Contributors: Aaron S. Allen, Michael B. Bakan, Robert Baron, Daniel Cavicchi, Timothy J. Cooley, Mark F. DeWitt, Barry Dornfeld, Thomas Faux, Burt Feintuch, Nancy Guy, Mary Hufford, Susan Hurley-Glowa, Patrick Hutchinson, Michelle Kisliuk, Pauleena M. MacDougall, Margarita Mazo, Dotan Nitzberg, Jennifer C. Post, Tom Rankin, Roshan Samtani, Jeffrey A. Summit, Jeff Todd Titon, Joshua Tucker, Rory Turner, Denise Von Glahn, and Thomas Walker

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780252051203
Publisher:	University of Illinois Press
Publication date:	04/30/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	360
File size:	17 MB
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About the Author

Timothy J. Cooley is a professor of music and global studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Surfing about Music and Making Music in the Polish Tatras: Tourists, Ethnographers, and Mountain Musicians, and a coeditor of Shadows in the Field: New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology, second edition.

Table of Contents

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Sustainability, Resilience, Advocacy, and Activism: Introduction Part 1. Thinking, Writing, and Musicking about Sustainability 1. Sustainability Clashes and Concordances 2. Dialogues All the Way Down: Conversational Genres as Matrices of Cultural and Ecological Renewal 3. Critical Radical Empathy and Cultural Sustainability 4. Sounding Sustainable; or, The Challenge of Sustainability Part 2. Responding to Anthropogenic Change 5. Garbage Truck Music and Sustainability in Contemporary Taiwan: From Cockroaches to Beethoven and Beyond 6. Climate Change, Mobile Pastoralism, and Cultural Heritage in Western Mongolia 7. Singing for la Mêche Perdue: Reconciling Economic, Environmental, and Cultural Imperatives in Louisiana 8. Alaska Native Ways of Knowing and the Sustenance of Musical Communities in an Ailing Petrostate 9. The New River Updated: Charles Ives and the Disappearing River Gods Part 3. Musics, Sustainability, and Media 10. Fandom’s Remix: Popular Msic, Participation, and Sustainability 11. Music, Media, and Mediation 12. Photography, Memory, and the Frail Instant 13. ’Tis the Company: Irish Traditional Music as Social Medium in the Age of Social Media 14. Sustaining Indigenous Sounds: Music Broadcasting and Cultural Vitalization in Highland Peru Part 4. Voice, Language, Trauma, and Resilience 15. Digital Technology, Chanting Torah, and the Sustainability of Tradition 16. Cultural Integrity and Local Music in Cape Breton and New Orleans 17. BaAka Singing in a State of Emergency: Storytelling and Listening as Medium and Message 18. Lament and Affective Cardiac Responses Part 5. Applying Sustainable Practices 19. Resilience and Adaptive Management in Piano Pedagogy for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Conditions 20. The Fiesta de la Bulería of Jerez de la Frontera: Music, Identity, and the Construction of Heritage 21. Fiddle-icious: A Community Model for Musical Sustainability 22. Discovering Maine’s Intangible Cultural Heritage 23. Song, Surfing, and Postcolonial Sustainability Contributors Index

Editorial Reviews

"Cultural Sustainabilities serves as a welcome and industrious collection that highlights not only the importance of sound but also its place in situating our current environmental and ecological plights." —Green Letters

"Well-conceived . . . This volume is inspiring in that it offers new ways of looking at cultural sustainability." —Western Folklore

"Cultural Sustainabilities is a superb collection of essays that broadly address the intersections of human creative practices and the environments from which they are derived and cultivated." —The World of Music

"Written to introduce the reader to the universal practice of 'musicking' and the influence of real-time environmental upheaval on its conception and performance, and the physical and technological systems that support and maintain its integrity, the scope and scale of the literature illuminates the immense challenges of survival in a time of climatic upheaval." —Environmental Values

"A must read for those interested in ecomusicology and will serve as a valuable resource for scholars in the Environmental Humanities writ large. . . . Students encountering Cultural Sustainabilities will be inspired to explore, advocate, and create a more equitable and pleasurable 'sound commons.'"—Mark Pedelty, author of A Song to Save the Salish Sea: Musical Performance as Environmental Activism

​"The topic of sustainability is of broad interest across many disciplines and activities in this era of rapid climate change, globalized communications, and musical transformations. Music and sustainability is a new area and there are very few publications on the subject, and none as large and as well conceived as this one. It promises to make a significant addition."—Anthony Seeger, author of Why Suyá Sing: A Musical Anthropology of an Amazonian People

​"Cultural Sustainabilities is a must read for those interested in ecomusicology and will serve as a valuable resource for scholars in the environmental humanities writ large. . . . Students encountering Cultural Sustainabilities will be inspired to explore, advocate, and create a more equitable and pleasurable 'sound commons.'"—Mark Pedelty, author of A Song to Save the Salish Sea: Musical Performance as Environmental Activism

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