Against the Grain

Sonic Worlds

What is ecomusicology, and what sorts of things do ecomusicologists investigate? Aaron S. Allen defines and traces the contours of this interdisciplinary field of study. Also, we revisit a conversation with Martin Daughtry about the auditory dimension of armed conflict and the violence perpetrated by mechanized sounds of wartime.

Aaron Allen’s keynote lecture on global ecomusicologies

Allen & Dawe, eds., Current Directions in Ecomusicology: Music, Culture, Nature Routledge, 2016

J. Martin Daughtry, Listening to War: Sound, Music, Trauma, and Survival in Wartime Iraq Oxford University Press, 2015