The Tuning of the World in the 20th and 21st Century: Discourses on Sound and Ecology

Biljana Leković

doi:10.25038/am.v0i25.460

Authors

Biljana Leković

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i25.460

Keywords:

sound; ecology, environment, bioacoustics, biomusic, soundscape ecology, ecoacoustic, sound studies, ecomusicology/ecocritical musicology

Abstract

In this paper, I would like to systematize possible areas, disciplines, and practices that deal with sound and ecology. Also, I would like to research their potential in solving global environmental and sonic problems. I would explore this topic with the idea of following the genesis and continuity of the development of ecological thought and practice concerning sound and music: from the concept of acoustic ecology, as a key one, which since the 1970s has brought to the fore the question of the relationship between sound and the environment, i.e., sound in the environment, through other disciplines based on critical thinking about the relation between sound and current environmental problems.

Article received: April 30, 2021; Article accepted: June 21, 2021; Published online: September 15, 2021. Original scholarly paper

Author Biography

Biljana Leković

Faculty of Music, University of Arts in Belgrade
Serbia

Biljana Leković, Ph.D., musicologist, Assistant Professor at the Department of Musicology, Faculty of Music in Belgrade. She is also a lecturer in the interdisciplinary study program at the University of Arts in Belgrade. She serves as president of the Centre for Popular Music Research. Her fields of interest include: contemporary music, popular music, new media practices, sound art, sound studies, and acoustic ecology. She is the author of two books: The Modernist Project of Pierre Schaeffer – From Radiophony Analysis to Musical Research (2011) and Sound Art/Zvukovna umetnost Musicological Perspective – Theories (2019).

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