Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: This dissertation investigates how functional music, utilitarian commercial music composed to create moods, shapes environmental imaginaries in late twentieth-and early twenty-first century America.In particular, the study considers how functional music operates in specific media contexts to facilitate sonic identifications with the natural world that imbricate nature with modalities of contemporary capitalism.As humandriven changes to the planet have ushered in the Anthropocene, an investigation of the relationships between musical sound, moods, and environments will draw out the feelings and imaginaries of the era.In doing so, this study amplifies these attenuated sounds, aiming to open the conversation to new ways of listening in an age of increasing environmental fragility.4 Jason W. Moore, "The Capitalocene, Part I: On the Nature and Origins of Our Ecological Crisis," http://www.jasonwmoore.
Author: Joshua Ottum
Institution: Ohio University
Language: English
Subfield: Music
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2612720391