Ecomusicology: sounding out the crisis

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dc.contributor.advisor Bassi, Shaul it_IT
dc.contributor.author Campini, Raoul <1997> it_IT
dc.date.accessioned 2024-06-15 it_IT
dc.date.accessioned 2024-11-13T09:41:06Z
dc.date.available 2024-11-13T09:41:06Z
dc.date.issued 2024-07-19 it_IT
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10579/26840
dc.description.abstract Pollution, biodiversity loss, climate change, sustainability: in recent years environmental issues have become some of the most significant socio-political, and arguably, moral, concerns of our time. However, there seems to be a cultural gap holding people back from taking the necessary steps to stop the emergency. Ecomusicology, which is defined as “the study of music, culture, and nature in all the complexities of those terms". Indeed, ecomusicology can be considered as a “crisis field” apt to address issues of music and the environment in a time of environmental crisis. it_IT
dc.language.iso en it_IT
dc.publisher Università Ca' Foscari Venezia it_IT
dc.rights © Raoul Campini, 2024 it_IT
dc.title Ecomusicology: sounding out the crisis it_IT
dc.title.alternative The Voice of the Other: The Case for Deep Listening and Nonhuman Music it_IT
dc.type Master's Degree Thesis it_IT
dc.degree.name Environmental humanities it_IT
dc.degree.level Laurea magistrale it_IT
dc.degree.grantor Dipartimento di Studi sull'Asia e sull'Africa Mediterranea it_IT
dc.description.academicyear sessione_estiva_2023-2024_appello_08-07-24 it_IT
dc.rights.accessrights openAccess it_IT
dc.thesis.matricno 863261 it_IT
dc.subject.miur L-ART/08 ETNOMUSICOLOGIA it_IT
dc.description.note ABSTRACT: The climate crisis is arguably the most significant issue the human race is facing right now, possibly ever; and yet, the global solutions to this emergency feel underwhelming and lacking the sense of momentousness that should be required. Part of the reason is that human inaction toward climate change has a cultural basis, the very basis that is responsible, or at best, complicit, in the environmental crisis in the first place. Quoting Amitav Ghosh, the climate crisis is a crisis of culture, and as of now, the culture is rooted in anthropocentrism and binary thinking, resulting in a dismissal of the nonhuman, stripping it of its agency and voice. There is a need to rebuild the human relationship with his surroundings, there is a need to listen. Ecomusicology and zoomusicology are two relatively new interdisciplinary fields of research focusing on nonhuman sound, both challenging anthropocentric views and encouraging a more informed, perhaps kinder, understanding of the Other. Music has a role to play in this process: it has always been considered something that could only be made by, and for, humans, yet another instance of the kind of thinking that leads to further detachment from the nonhuman. To broaden one’s scope toward what is more than human in a sonic context, to listen, is the very first step leading to a reconciliation with the Other, due to the inevitable recognition that it has a voice, and it can have music. it_IT
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dc.provenance.upload Raoul Campini (863261@stud.unive.it), 2024-06-15 it_IT
dc.provenance.plagiarycheck Shaul Bassi (bassi@unive.it), 2024-07-08 it_IT


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