We are very pleased to announce the publication of the most recent issue of MUSICultures (45: 1-2), a special double issue on Ecologies guest edited by Dr. Aaron S. Allen (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) and Dr. Jeff Todd Titon (Brown University).
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The contents of this issue include:
Introduction
AARON S. ALLEN
One Ecology and Many Ecologies: The Problem and Opportunity of Ecology for Music and Sound Studies
JULIANNE GRAPER
Bat City: Becoming with Bats in the Austin Music Scene
ALEXANDRA HUI
Imagining Ecologies through Sound: An Historic-ecological Approach to the Soundscape of the Mississippi Flyway
JOHN E. QUINN, ANNA J. MARKEY, DAKOTA HOWARD, SAM CRUMMETT, and ALEXANDER R. SCHINDLER
Intersections of Soundscapes and Conservation: Ecologies of Sound in Naturecultures
JENNIFER C. POST and BRYAN C. PIJANOWSKI
Coupling Scientific and Humanistic Approaches to Address Wicked Environmental Problems of the Twenty-first Century: Collaborating in an Acoustic Community Nexus
SUNMIN YOON
What’s in the Song? Urtyn duu as Sonic “Ritual” Among Mongolian Herder-singers
REBECCA DIRKSEN
Haiti, Singing for the Land, Sea, and Sky: Cultivating Ecological Metaphysics and Environmental Awareness through Music
JAMES EDWARDS
A Field Report from Okinawa, Japan: Applied Ecomusicology and the 100-Year Kuruchi Forest Project
LAURA CHAMBERS
Feed the Soil, Not the Plant: Case Studies in the Sustainability of Ontario’s Regional Orchestras
JUHA TORVINEN
Resounding: Feeling, Mytho-ecological Framing, and the Sámi Conception of Nature in Outi Tarkiainen’s The Earth, Spring’s Daughter
JOSHUA OTTUM
Between Two Worlds: American New Age Music and Environmental Imaginaries
RANDALL HARLOW
Ecologies of Practice in Musical Performance
DARYL JAMIESON
Uncanny Movement through Virtual Spaces: Michael Pisaro’s fields have ears
Afterword
JEFF TODD TITON
Ecomusicology and the Problems in Ecology
Plus book and recording reviews.