1st Edition
Music and the Performing Arts in the Anthropocene Nature, Materialities and Ecological Transformation
1. Introduction
François Ribac, Isabelle Moindrot and Nicolas Donin
Part 1: Making Nature
Stage Matters
2. Heating, Ventilating, Cleaning: Air Quality in Performance Halls in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Marianne Bouchardon
3. Synthetic Waters: Aquatic Spectacles in France in the Nineteenth Century
Léonor Delaunay
4. An Investigation Into Gas Lighting in Nineteenth-Century Parisian Theatres
Isabelle Moindrot
On Becoming Modern
5. Naturally Speaking About Music? An Inquiry Into Music Journals, 1850-1930
Angélica Rigaudière
6. Spectral Music, Nature and the Ecological Crisis
Jonathan Cross
7. New Music in the Anthropocene: Notes of an Apprenticeship
Nicolas Donin
Part 2: Tracking Materiality
Uncovering Genealogies
8. The Making of Eco-Sonic Media: Conversation With Jacob Smith
Jacob Smith and François Ribac
9. Organology and the Silencing of Musical Instrument Museums
Judith Dehail
Current Ecologies of Musical Instruments
10. Producing String Quartets: Wood, Nature and Naturality
Christine Sinapi
11. African Wood and Sustainable Ambitions: The Case of Warwick
Fabrice Pirolli
12. The Objects of Free Improvisation
Clément Canonne
Part 3: Looking Forward
Performing What?
13. Do We Really Need New Narratives?
François Ribac and Joëlle Le Marec
14. The Sound of the Anthropocene: Music and Empowerment in a Refugee Camp
Émilie Da Lage
15. Le Grand Orchestre de la Transition: A Grassroots Project in Retrospect
François Ribac
Changing What?
16. Beyond Sustainability: The Music Industries Declare Emergency on Planet Earth – Or Do They?
Paul Harkins
17. An Ecological Redirection for Music and the Arts? A Conversation with Diego Landivar
Diego Landivar and François Ribac
Biography
François Ribac was a composer of musical theatre and a sociologist, emeritus senior lecturer at the University of Burgundy and associated member of LADYSS laboratory, France. His research focused on environmental humanities, popular music, sound reproduction and cultural expertise.
Isabelle Moindrot is Professor of Theatre Studies at Université Paris 8 and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF). Her work focuses on operatic dramaturgy, the history of theatrical spectacle and contemporary opera staging.
Nicolas Donin is Professor and Chair of musicology at the University of Geneva. He has published extensively on the history of music and musicology since the 19th century, with a focus on contemporary composition and performance.
