Recomposed: Music, Climate, Crisis, Change
The major look at the environmental impact of the music industry and a brilliant exploration of how musicians are thinking about and being influenced by the climate crisis

Everywhere you look, music is changing—overhauling itself in response to climate crisis. There are records made of plants, stereos that run on sunshine, streaming services powered like hot springs. There are nonprofit and investment initiatives geared toward environmental concerns. There are sector-specific carbon calculators, literacy programs, and organizations that are sizing up (and drawing down) the environmental impact of music on every level. Top to bottom, we are witnessing a climate-oriented transformation of what music is and how it comes to be.
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Recomposed: Music, Climate, Crisis, Change
The major look at the environmental impact of the music industry and a brilliant exploration of how musicians are thinking about and being influenced by the climate crisis

Everywhere you look, music is changing—overhauling itself in response to climate crisis. There are records made of plants, stereos that run on sunshine, streaming services powered like hot springs. There are nonprofit and investment initiatives geared toward environmental concerns. There are sector-specific carbon calculators, literacy programs, and organizations that are sizing up (and drawing down) the environmental impact of music on every level. Top to bottom, we are witnessing a climate-oriented transformation of what music is and how it comes to be.
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Recomposed: Music, Climate, Crisis, Change

Recomposed: Music, Climate, Crisis, Change

by Kyle Devine
Recomposed: Music, Climate, Crisis, Change

Recomposed: Music, Climate, Crisis, Change

by Kyle Devine

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The major look at the environmental impact of the music industry and a brilliant exploration of how musicians are thinking about and being influenced by the climate crisis

Everywhere you look, music is changing—overhauling itself in response to climate crisis. There are records made of plants, stereos that run on sunshine, streaming services powered like hot springs. There are nonprofit and investment initiatives geared toward environmental concerns. There are sector-specific carbon calculators, literacy programs, and organizations that are sizing up (and drawing down) the environmental impact of music on every level. Top to bottom, we are witnessing a climate-oriented transformation of what music is and how it comes to be.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781804298190
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 08/11/2026
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 288

About the Author

Kyle Devine is dean of graduate studies at the University of Winnipeg and a former professor of music and environmental humanities at the University of Oslo. He is the author of Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music, a human and environmental history of the recording industry. The book attracted international media attention, leading to an op-ed in the Guardian (200,000 people read the essay within the first week of publication) as well as interviews and coverage around the world.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
The Great Recomposition
Part I: Technical Solutions
1. The Ecological Record
2. Vicious Cycles
3. Green Vinyl
4. Evolution Music
5. Will It Scale?
6. Building Better Fetishes
Part II: Institutional Solutions
7. The Carbon Question
8. ClimateEQ
9. Atmospheric Accounting
10. Future Energy Artists
11. EarthPercent
12. Beyond Carbon Convenience
Part III: Cultural Solutions
13. The Missing Link
14. We Make Tomorrow
15. A Behavioral Change Is Gonna Come
16. Set in Motion
17. The Future, Wouldn’t That Be Nice?
18. One Thing to Another
Postscript
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
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