SOUNDS, ECOLOGIES, MUSICS

Sounds Ecologies Musics poses exciting challenges and provides fresh opportunities for scholars scientists environmental activists musicians and listeners to consider music and sound from ecological standpoints Authors in Part I examine the natural and built environment and how music and sound are woven into it how the environment enables music and sound and how the natural and cultural production of music and sound in turn impact the environment In Part II contributors consider music and sound in relation to ecological knowledges that appear to conflict with yet may be viewed as complementary to Western science traditional and Indigenous ecological and environmental knowledges Part III features multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches by scholars scientists and practitioners who probe the ecological imaginary regarding the complex ideas and contested keywords that characterize ecomusicology sound music culture society environment and nature A common theme across the book is the idea of diverse ecologies Once confined to the natural sciences the word ecology is common today in the social sciences humanities and arts yet its diverse uses have become imprecise and confusing Engaging the conflicting and complementary meanings of