Environmental sustainability and human cultural sustainability are inextricably linked. Reversing damaging human impact on the global environment is ultimately a cultural question, and as with politics, the answers are often profoundly local. Cultural Sustainabilities presents twenty-three essays by musicologists and ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, folklorists, ethnographers, documentary filmmakers, musicians, artists, and activists, each asking a particular question or presenting a specific local case study about cultural and environmental sustainability. Contributing to the environmental humanities, the authors embrace and even celebrate human engagement with ecosystems, though with a profound sense of collective responsibility created by the emergence of the Anthropocene. Contributors: Aaron S. Allen, Michael B. Bakan, Robert Baron, Daniel Cavicchi, Timothy J. Cooley, Mark F. DeWitt, Barry Dornfeld, Thomas Faux, Burt Feintuch, Nancy Guy, Mary Hufford, Susan Hurley-Glowa, Patrick Hutchinson, Michelle Kisliuk, Pauleena M. MacDougall, Margarita Mazo, Dotan Nitzberg, Jennifer C. Post, Tom Rankin, Roshan Samtani, Jeffrey A. Summit, Jeff Todd Titon, Joshua Tucker, Rory Turner, Denise Von Glahn, and Thomas Walker| Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Sustainability, Resilience, Advocacy, and Activism: Introduction Part 1. Thinking, Writing, and Musicking about Sustainability 1. Sustainability Clashes and Concordances 2. Dialogues All the Way Down: Conversational Genres as Matrices of Cultural and Ecological Renewal 3. Critical Radical Empathy and Cultural Sustainability 4. Sounding Sustainable; or, The Challenge of Sustainability Part 2. Responding to Anthropogenic Change 5. Garbage Truck Music and Sustainability in Contemporary Taiwan: From Cockroaches to Beethoven and Beyond 6. Climate Change, Mobile Pastoralism, and Cultural Heritage in Western Mongolia 7. Singing for la Mêche Perdue: Reconciling Economic, Environmental, and Cultural Imperatives in Louisiana 8. Alaska Native Ways of Knowing and the Sustenance of Musical Communities in an Ailing Petrostate 9. The New River Updated: Charles Ives and the Disappearing River Gods Part 3. Musics, Sustainability, and Media 10. Fandom's Remix: Popular Msic, Participation, and Sustainability 11. Music, Media, and Mediation 12. Photography, Memory, and the Frail Instant 13. 'Tis the Company: Irish Traditional Music as Social Medium in the Age of Social Media 14. Sustaining Indigenous Sounds: Music Broadcasting and Cultural Vitalization in Highland Peru Part 4. Voice, Language, Trauma, and Resilience 15. Digital Technology, Chanting Torah, and the Sustainability of Tradition 16. Cultural Integrity and Local Music in Cape Breton and New Orleans 17. BaAka Singing in a State of Emergency: Storytelling and Listening as Medium and Message 18. Lament and Affective Cardiac Responses Part 5. Applying Sustainable Practices 19. Resilience and Adaptive Management in Piano Pedagogy for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Conditions 20. The Fiesta de la Bulería of Jerez de la Frontera: Music, Identity, and the Construction of Heritage 21. Fiddle-icious: A Community Model for Musical Sustainability 22. Discovering Maine's Intangible Cultural Heritage 23. Song, Surfing, and Postcolonial Sustainability Contributors Index |"Cultural Sustainabilities serves as a welcome and industrious collection that highlights not only the importance of sound but also its place in situating our current environmental and ecological plights." —Green Letters
"Well-conceived . . . This volume is inspiring in that it offers new ways of looking at cultural sustainability." —Western Folklore
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