Cole, R orcid.org/0000-0001-6281-3099 (2020) Towards an Ecological History of Music. In: Aguilar, A, Cole, R, Pritchard, M and Clarke, E, (eds.) Remixing Music Studies: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Cook. Routledge ISBN 9781138359925
Abstract
’The idea of culture’, Raymond Williams argues towards the end of Culture and Society, ‘rests on a metaphor: the tending of natural growth’. This chapter rethinks the historiography of twentieth-century music by reading an incipient ecological critique out of Williams’ work and coupling this relational paradigm with Deleuze and Guattari’s theory of the rhizome. I ground this discussion in disputes over cultural pluralism occasioned by The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music, edited by Nicholas Cook and Anthony Pople in 2004. What would it mean, I ask, to reclaim organicism as a way of understanding the proliferation, cultivation, and complex multiplicity of sonic practices across the globe? Can we move beyond prior conceptions of the natural to arrive at a new history of musical experience both radically democratic and more in tune with hybridity, interconnection, heterogeneity, and unpredictable flux? Therein lies the possibility of an ecological musicology.
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Keywords: | Musicology |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Music (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 16 Aug 2022 11:04 |
Last Modified: | 16 Aug 2022 11:04 |
Published Version: | https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.432... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:190015 |