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Music and Environmentalism in Twenty-First Century American Popular Culture

Gervin, Kelly J
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1494162797534902

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, Master of Music (MM), Bowling Green State University, Music Ethnomusicology.
U.S. environmental policy is currently amid rapid change during a time when overwhelming scientific evidence continues to assert the severity of climate crises as an inescapable part of everyday life on both a local and global scale. These pressing environmental issues, our heightened awareness of them, and changing legislation against them are shaping humanity's relationship with the environment. To better understand the social and political implications of these scientifically quantified crises, a cultural is needed. For such a dimension, this thesis situates popular music as one avenue through which changes in social and political relationships to the environment are being negotiated. Through investigation of sustainability-minded music festivals, analysis of recorded music with activist motivations, and diversification of environmental discourse via nonnormative hearing ecologies, the cases studied in this thesis all suggest that popular music has gained new significance within the country's current social and political climates. Engaging with fore-fronting ecomusicological literature like Mark Pedelty's A Song to Save the Salish Sea as well as a diverse range of other scholarly perspectives in sound studies, phenomenological experience, and disability studies, this thesis identifies music as site from which newly emerging paradigmatic forms of twenty-first century environmentalism are being produced in American popular culture.
Katherine Meizel (Advisor)
Sidra Lawrence (Committee Member)
77 p.
Environmental Philosophy; Music; Sustainability
ethnomusicology; ecomusicology; disability studies; environmentalism; climate change; sustainability; popular culture; popular music

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  • Gervin, K. J. (2017). Music and Environmentalism in Twenty-First Century American Popular Culture [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1494162797534902

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Gervin, Kelly. Music and Environmentalism in Twenty-First Century American Popular Culture. 2017. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1494162797534902.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Gervin, Kelly. "Music and Environmentalism in Twenty-First Century American Popular Culture." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1494162797534902

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