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This volume is the first sustained examination of the complex perspectives that comprise ecomusicology—the study of the intersections of music/sound, culture/society, and nature/environment. Twenty-two authors provide a range of theoretical, methodological, and empirical chapters representing disciplines such as anthropology, biology, ecology, environmental studies, ethnomusicology, history, literature, musicology, performance studies, and psychology. They bring their specialized training to bear on interdisciplinary topics, both individually and in collaboration. Emerging from the whole is a view of ecomusicology as a field, a place where many disciplines come together. The topics addressed in this volume—contemporary composers and traditional musics, acoustic ecology and politicized soundscapes, material sustainability and environmental crisis, familiar and unfamiliar sounds, local places and global warming, birds and mice, hearing and listening, biomusic and soundscape ecology, and more—engage with conversations in the various realms of music study as well as in environmental studies and cultural studies. As with any healthy ecosystem, the field of ecomusicology is dynamic, but this edited collection provides a snapshot of it in a formative period. Each chapter is short, designed to be accessible to the nonspecialist, and includes extensive bibliographies; some chapters also provide further materials on a companion website: http://www.ecomusicology.info/cde/. An introduction and interspersed editorial summaries help guide readers through four current directions—ecological, fieldwork, critical, and textual—in the field of ecomusicology.

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The sustainability of music and other intangible expressions of culture has been high on the agenda of scholars, governments, and nongovernmental organizations in recent years. However, there is a striking lack of systematic research into what exactly affects sustainability across music cultures. By analyzing case studies of nine highly diverse music cultures against a single framework that identifies key factors in music sustainability, Sustainable Futures for Music Cultures offers an understanding of both the challenges and dynamics of music sustainability in the contemporary global environment, as well as breathing new life into the discredited realm of comparative musicology, but now from an emphatically non-Eurocentric perspective. Situated within the expanding field of applied ethnomusicology, this book confirms some commonly held beliefs, challenges others, and reveals sometimes surprising insights into the dynamics of music cultures by examining, comparing, and contrasting highly diverse contexts, from thriving to “in urgent need of safeguarding.” Analyzing sustainability across five carefully defined domains, the book identifies pathways to strategies and tools that may empower communities and other stakeholders to sustain and revitalize their music heritage on their terms. In this way, the book aims to contribute to greater scholarly insight, new (sub)disciplinary approaches, and pathways to improved practical outcomes for the long-term sustainability of music cultures.

Applied ethnomusicology. --- Music --- Sustainability. --- Ecomusicology. --- Social aspects.

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Song Walking explores the politics of land, its position in memories, and its foundation in changing land-use practices in western Maputaland, a borderland region situated at the juncture of South Africa, Mozambique, and Swaziland. Angela Impey investigates contrasting accounts of this little-known geopolitical triangle, offsetting textual histories with the memories of a group of elderly women whose songs and everyday practices narrativize a century of borderland dynamics. Drawing evidence from women's walking songs (amaculo manihamba)--once performed while traversing vast distances to the accompaniment of the European mouth-harp (isitweletwele)--she uncovers the manifold impacts of internationally-driven transboundary environmental conservation on land, livelihoods, and local senses of place. This book links ethnomusicological research to larger themes of international development, environmental conservation, gender, and local economic access to resources. By demonstrating that development processes are essentially cultural processes and revealing how music fits within this frame, Song Walking testifies to the affective, spatial, and economic dimensions of place, while contributing to a more inclusive and culturally apposite alignment between land and environmental policies and local needs and practices.

Women --- Ecomusicology --- Music --- Jew's harp --- Social life and customs. --- Social aspects --- Maputaland (South Africa) --- Ecomusicology. --- Geschlechterrolle. --- Manners and customs. --- Musiksoziologie. --- Social aspects. --- Social life and customs --- Moçambique. --- South Africa --- Swasiland. --- Südafrika.

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He concludes with a discussion of "applied ecomusicology," considering ways this book might be of use to activists and musicians at the community level.

Environmentalism --- Music --- Ecomusicology --- Environmental movement --- Social movements --- Anti-environmentalism --- Sustainable living --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Ecocritical musicology --- Ethnomusicology --- Political aspects --- Greenwashing

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This collection of essays is driven by the proposition that environmental and cultural sustainability are inextricably linked. The authors are unified by the influence of the pioneering work of Jeff Todd Titon in developing broadly ecological approaches to folklore, ethnomusicology, and sustainability.

Ecomusicology. --- Ethnomusicology. --- Sustainability --- Cultural policy. --- Intellectual life --- State encouragement of science, literature, and art --- Culture --- Popular culture --- Comparative musicology --- Ethnology --- Musicology --- Sustainability science --- Human ecology --- Social ecology --- Ecocritical musicology --- Ethnomusicology --- Social aspects. --- Government policy