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Exploring the Ecologies of Music and Sound: Environmental, Mental and Social Ecologies in Music, Sound Art and Artivisms book cover

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Exploring the Ecologies of Music and Sound Environmental, Mental and Social Ecologies in Music, Sound Art and Artivisms

By Makis Solomos Copyright 2023
288 Pages 48 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

288 Pages 48 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

288 Pages 48 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Makis Solomos explores the ecologies of music and sound, inspired by Felix Guattari, for whom environmental destruction caused by capitalism goes hand in hand with deteriorating ways of living and feeling, and for whom an ecosophical stance, combining various ecological registers, offers a glimpse of emancipation, a position strengthened today by intersectional approaches. Solomos explores... Read more

Introduction

1 Towards an ecology of sound

PART I: Music, nature, sounds, the living

2 Music and nature

3 Acoustic ecology and soundscape compositions

4 Philosophies of place and field recording

5 Ecology and environmental sonic artivisms

PART II: Mental ecology

6 Listening as a construction of the commons

7 Subjectivation, affect, and empowerment

8 Music, sound, and extreme violence

PART III: Social ecology

9 Music, society, politics

10 Social and ecosophical artivisms

By way of conclusion: Lockdown and music: the artist as producer

Biography

Makis Solomos was born in Greece and now lives in France, working as Professor of Musicology at the Université Paris 8 and as director of the research team MUSIDANSE. He has published many books and articles about new music, and he is one of the main international specialists of Xenakis’ music. His first book with Routledge was From Music to Sound (2019).

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