What is ecomusicology, and what sorts of things do ecomusicologists investigate? Aaron S. Allen defines and traces the contours of this interdisciplinary field of study. Also, we revisit a conversation with Martin Daughtry about the auditory dimension of armed conflict and the violence perpetrated by mechanized sounds of wartime.

Aaron Allen’s keynote lecture on global ecomusicologies

Allen & Dawe, eds., Current Directions in Ecomusicology: Music, Culture, Nature Routledge, 2016

J. Martin Daughtry, Listening to War: Sound, Music, Trauma, and Survival in Wartime Iraq Oxford University Press, 2015

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