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A song to save the Salish Sea : musical performance as environmental activism / Mark Pedelty

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Pedelty, Mark
Published
Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [2016]
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1 online resource (xv, 283 pages).
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Contents
Introduction: why environmentalist music? -- Bellingham's Dana Lyons: the artful activist -- Victoria's Raging Grannies: an unstoppable force -- Turtle Island's Idle No More: the aural art of protest -- Vancouver's Bobs & Lolo: raindrop pop -- Surrey's artist response team: art for ecology -- Orcas Island's Irthlingz: community art as activism -- Victoria's Towers and Trees: together alone online -- Conclusion: common themes and connections.
Summary
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 to the Raging Grannies' formation in 1987, Cascadia's ecology has inspired legions of songwriters and musicians to advocate for preservation through music. 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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9780253023162 (electronic bk.)
0253023165 (electronic bk.)
9780253022684 hardcover ; alkaline paper
0253022681 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9780253023001 paperback ; alkaline paper
0253023009 paperback ; alkaline paper
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes Discography.
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