Research Catalog

Title

Toward a sound ecology : new and selected essays / Jeff Todd Titon.

Author

Titon, Jeff Todd, 1943-

Publication

• Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Description

x, 309 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

"How does sound ecology--an acoustic connective tissue among communities--also become a basis for a healthy economy and a just community? Jeff Todd Titon's lived experiences shed light on the power of song, the ecology of musical cultures, and even cultural sustainability and resilience. In Toward a Sound Ecology, Titon's collected essays address his growing concerns with people making music, holistic ecological approaches to music, and sacred transformations of sound. Titon also demonstrates how to conduct socially responsible fieldwork and compose engaging and accessible ethnography that speaks to a diverse readership. Toward a Sound Ecology is an anthology of Titon's key writings, which are situated chronologically within three particular areas of interest: fieldwork, cultural and musical sustainability, and sound ecology. According to Titon--a foundational figure in folklore and ethnomusicology--a re-orientation away from a world of texts and objects and toward a world of sound connections will reveal the basis of a universal kinship."--

Series Statement

Music, nature, place

Uniform Title

Music, nature, place.

Subject

• Ecomusicology
• Sound > Social aspects
• Applied ethnomusicology
• Ethnomusicology > Methodology
• Music and folklore
• Music and anthropology

Genre/Form

Essays.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-301) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- I. Field work : Folklore and ethnomusicology. The life story ; Ethnomusicology as the study of people making music ; Text ; Knowing fieldwork ; Applied ethnomusicology : A descriptive and historical account -- II. Cultural and musical sustainability. "The real thing" : Tourism, authenticity, and pilgrimage among the Old Regular Baptists at the 1997 Smithsonian Folklife Festival ; Music and sustainability : An ecological viewpoint ; Sustainability, resilience, and adaptive management for applied ethnomusicology -- III. Toward a sound ecology. A sound commons for all living creatures ; The nature of ecomusicology ; Thoreau's ear ; The sound of climate change ; Sustainability and a sound ecology.

Call Number

*LE 21-3306

ISBN

• 9780253049681
• 0253049687
• 9780253049674
• 0253049679

OCLC

1129098695

Author

Titon, Jeff Todd, 1943- author.

Title

Toward a sound ecology : new and selected essays / Jeff Todd Titon.

Publisher

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Music, nature, place

Music, nature, place.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-301) and index.

Research Call Number

*LE 21-3306