Music and the Performing Arts in the Anthropocene : Nature, Materialities and Ecological Transformation (Hardcover)

1. Introduction??Part?1: Making nature??Stage matters??2. Heating, ventilating, cleaning: air quality in performance halls in 19th-century Paris? 3. Synthetic waters: aquatic spectacles in France in the 19th century? 4. An investigation into gas lighting in 19th-century Parisian theatres??On becoming modern??5. Naturally speaking about music? An inquiry into music journals, 1850-1930? 6. Spectral music, nature and the ecological crisis? 7. New music in the Anthropocene: notes of an apprenticeship??Part?2: Tracking materiality??Uncovering Genealogies??8. The making of?Eco-Sonic Media: conversation with Jacob Smith? 9. Organology and the silencing of musical instrument museums??Current ecologies of musical instruments? 10. Producing string quartets: wood, nature, and naturality? 11. African wood and sustainable ambitions: the case of Warwick? 12. The objects of free improvisation??Part 3: Looking forward??Performing what???13. Do we really need new narratives?? 14. The sound of the Anthropocene: Music and empowerment in a refugee camp? 15.?Le Grand Orchestre de la?Transition: a grassroots project in retrospect??Changing what???16. Beyond sustainability: The music industries declare emergency on planet Earth ? or do they?? 17. An ecological redirection for music and the arts? A conversation with Diego Landivar