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6%OFFMark Pedelty - A Song to Save the Salish Sea: Musical Performance as Environmental Activism - 9780253023001 - V9780253023001
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A Song to Save the Salish Sea: Musical Performance as Environmental Activism

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Description for A Song to Save the Salish Sea: Musical Performance as Environmental Activism paperback. Series: Music, Nature, Place. Num Pages: 304 pages, 9 b&w illus., 1 music exx. BIC Classification: 1KB; AVG; JPW; RNA; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 391.

On the coast of Washington and British Columbia sit the misty forests and towering mountains of Cascadia. With archipelagos surrounding its shores and tidal surges of the Salish Sea trundling through the interior, this bioregion has long attracted loggers, fishing fleets, and land developers, each generation seeking successively harder to reach resources as old-growth stands, salmon stocks, and other natural endowments are depleted. Alongside encroaching developers and industrialists is the presence of a rich environmental movement that has historically built community through musical activism. From the Wobblies' Little Red Songbook (1909) to Woody Guthrie's Columbia River Songs (1941) on through ... Read more

In this book, Mark Pedelty explores Cascadia's vibrant eco-musical community in order to understand how environmentalist music imagines, and perhaps even creates, a more sustainable conception of place. Highlighting the music and environmental work of such various groups as Dana Lyons, the Raging Grannies, Idle No More, Towers and Trees, and Irthlingz, among others, Pedelty examines the divergent strategies—musical, organizational, and technological—used by each musical group to reach different audiences and to mobilize action. He concludes with a discussion of "applied ecomusicology," considering ways this book might be of use to activists and musicians at the community level.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
Music, Nature, Place
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253023001
SKU
V9780253023001
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About Mark Pedelty
Mark Pedelty is Professor of Communication Studies and Anthropology and Resident Fellow in the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota. His books include Ecomusicology: Rock, Folk and the Environment and Musical Ritual in Mexico City: From the Aztec to NAFTA.

Reviews for A Song to Save the Salish Sea: Musical Performance as Environmental Activism
Mark Pedelty's A Song to Save the Salish Sea is an engaging and accessible examination of contemporary environmentalist popular music in the Salish Sea region of the Pacific Northwest.
Journal of the Society for American Music
Invaluable for its capacity to arouse musical activism, A Song of the Salish Sea introduces a group of musicians whose dedication, courage, ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for A Song to Save the Salish Sea: Musical Performance as Environmental Activism


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