Shaping an Ear for Climate Change
Abstract How does contemporary music cultivate ecological thinking and climate-change awareness in our era of global warming? This essay investigates how the music of Pulitzer Prize–winning Alaskan composer John Luther Adams incites ecological listening and shapes an ear for climate change. It exami...
Published in: | Environmental Humanities |
---|---|
Main Author: | |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Duke University Press
2016
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/22011919-3664211 https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article-pdf/8/2/172/409070/172Chisholm.pdf |
id |
crdukeunivpr:10.1215/22011919-3664211 |
---|---|
record_format |
openpolar |
spelling |
crdukeunivpr:10.1215/22011919-3664211 2024-06-02T08:09:33+00:00 Shaping an Ear for Climate Change Chisholm, Dianne 2016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/22011919-3664211 https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article-pdf/8/2/172/409070/172Chisholm.pdf en eng Duke University Press Environmental Humanities volume 8, issue 2, page 172-195 ISSN 2201-1919 2201-1919 journal-article 2016 crdukeunivpr https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-3664211 2024-05-07T13:16:55Z Abstract How does contemporary music cultivate ecological thinking and climate-change awareness in our era of global warming? This essay investigates how the music of Pulitzer Prize–winning Alaskan composer John Luther Adams incites ecological listening and shapes an ear for climate change. It examines Adams’s evolving signature style of composing and/or performing with climatic elements and natural forces, and it further examines how this style effectively attunes audiences to ongoing environmental events that weather the world outside the concert hall. In other words, it investigates the idea and play of “Sila” in Adams’s work, Sila being a concept that Adams derives from the Inuit to signify in the largest possible sense the weather, its cosmic and chaotic modalities, and the wisdom that attends to them. Article in Journal/Newspaper inuit Duke University Press Pulitzer ENVELOPE(-154.267,-154.267,-85.817,-85.817) Sila ENVELOPE(13.133,13.133,66.320,66.320) Environmental Humanities 8 2 172 195 |
institution |
Open Polar |
collection |
Duke University Press |
op_collection_id |
crdukeunivpr |
language |
English |
description |
Abstract How does contemporary music cultivate ecological thinking and climate-change awareness in our era of global warming? This essay investigates how the music of Pulitzer Prize–winning Alaskan composer John Luther Adams incites ecological listening and shapes an ear for climate change. It examines Adams’s evolving signature style of composing and/or performing with climatic elements and natural forces, and it further examines how this style effectively attunes audiences to ongoing environmental events that weather the world outside the concert hall. In other words, it investigates the idea and play of “Sila” in Adams’s work, Sila being a concept that Adams derives from the Inuit to signify in the largest possible sense the weather, its cosmic and chaotic modalities, and the wisdom that attends to them. |
format |
Article in Journal/Newspaper |
author |
Chisholm, Dianne |
spellingShingle |
Chisholm, Dianne Shaping an Ear for Climate Change |
author_facet |
Chisholm, Dianne |
author_sort |
Chisholm, Dianne |
title |
Shaping an Ear for Climate Change |
title_short |
Shaping an Ear for Climate Change |
title_full |
Shaping an Ear for Climate Change |
title_fullStr |
Shaping an Ear for Climate Change |
title_full_unstemmed |
Shaping an Ear for Climate Change |
title_sort |
shaping an ear for climate change |
publisher |
Duke University Press |
publishDate |
2016 |
url |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/22011919-3664211 https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article-pdf/8/2/172/409070/172Chisholm.pdf |
long_lat |
ENVELOPE(-154.267,-154.267,-85.817,-85.817) ENVELOPE(13.133,13.133,66.320,66.320) |
geographic |
Pulitzer Sila |
geographic_facet |
Pulitzer Sila |
genre |
inuit |
genre_facet |
inuit |
op_source |
Environmental Humanities volume 8, issue 2, page 172-195 ISSN 2201-1919 2201-1919 |
op_doi |
https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-3664211 |
container_title |
Environmental Humanities |
container_volume |
8 |
container_issue |
2 |
container_start_page |
172 |
op_container_end_page |
195 |
_version_ |
1800755282909855744 |