This article explores how American New Age music imagines the natural world. Through the lens of releases by composers Will Ackerman and Dr. Steven Halpern, I argue that the inherent flexibility and ambiguity of the New Age genre mimics the shifting positions of environmentally-related concepts such as the sublime, the wilderness, and anthropogenic climate change. By exploring two contrasting approaches to the genre, I will outline distinct narratives that provide opposing views of how environmental phenomena function within the New Age context.Cet article considère la façon dont la musique New Age américaine imagine le monde naturel. À travers le prisme d’oeuvres des compositeurs Will Ackerman et Steven Halpern, j’avance que la flexibilité...
International audienceIn recent music as well as in sound art, sound has emerged as a crossroad of t...
This article discusses the construction and representation of nature in the composition and performa...
Ribac, F., & Harkins, P. (2020). Popular Music and the Anthropocene. Popular Music, 39(1), 1-21. htt...
Guest editor Kate Galloway presents an introduction to the special issue Music, Sound, and the Aura...
This article analyses Western popular music in terms of content related to climate change. While ref...
This article argues for a new critical perspective called “Post-Natural Sound Arts” (PNSA). Its focu...
We take stock of engagements occurring between music and environment and what this heralds for curre...
This article presents a musical bestiary, a collection of creatures found in the work of the compose...
Music has always been influenced by nature. Even before the Middle Ages, the environment in which a ...
My project will be in two parts. The first part will be a composition based around the idea of the ...
This thesis examines nature as both a concept and source material in contemporary music. Composers r...
The idea that old-time music is often strongly associated with nature is not news to anyone familiar...
As is argued in this article, a deeper understanding of the relationship between music and performan...
We are currently living in the midst of a global warming crisis, and running against the clock to co...
As is argued in this article, a deeper understanding of the relationship between music and performan...
International audienceIn recent music as well as in sound art, sound has emerged as a crossroad of t...
This article discusses the construction and representation of nature in the composition and performa...
Ribac, F., & Harkins, P. (2020). Popular Music and the Anthropocene. Popular Music, 39(1), 1-21. htt...
Guest editor Kate Galloway presents an introduction to the special issue Music, Sound, and the Aura...
This article analyses Western popular music in terms of content related to climate change. While ref...
This article argues for a new critical perspective called “Post-Natural Sound Arts” (PNSA). Its focu...
We take stock of engagements occurring between music and environment and what this heralds for curre...
This article presents a musical bestiary, a collection of creatures found in the work of the compose...
Music has always been influenced by nature. Even before the Middle Ages, the environment in which a ...
My project will be in two parts. The first part will be a composition based around the idea of the ...
This thesis examines nature as both a concept and source material in contemporary music. Composers r...
The idea that old-time music is often strongly associated with nature is not news to anyone familiar...
As is argued in this article, a deeper understanding of the relationship between music and performan...
We are currently living in the midst of a global warming crisis, and running against the clock to co...
As is argued in this article, a deeper understanding of the relationship between music and performan...
International audienceIn recent music as well as in sound art, sound has emerged as a crossroad of t...
This article discusses the construction and representation of nature in the composition and performa...
Ribac, F., & Harkins, P. (2020). Popular Music and the Anthropocene. Popular Music, 39(1), 1-21. htt...