Toward a Sound Ecology

How does sound ecology—an acoustic connective tissue among communities—also become a basis for a healthy economy and a just community?

Jeff Todd Titon's lived experiences shed light on the power of song, the ecology of musical cultures, and even cultural sustainability and resilience. In Toward a Sound Ecology, Titon's collected essays address his growing concerns with people making music, holistic ecological approaches to music, and sacred transformations of sound. Titon also demonstrates how to conduct socially responsible fieldwork and compose engaging and accessible ethnography that speaks to a diverse readership. Toward a Sound Ecology is an anthology of Titon's key writings, which are situated chronologically within three particular areas of interest: fieldwork, cultural and musical sustainability, and sound ecology. According to Titon—a foundational figure in folklore and ethnomusicology—a re-orientation away from a world of texts and objects and toward a world of sound connections will reveal the basis of a universal kinship.

Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Field Work: Folklore and Ethnomusicology
1. The Life Story
2. Ethnomusicology as the Study of People Making Music
3. Text
4. Knowing Fieldwork
5. Applied Ethnomusicology: A Descriptive and Historical Account
II: Cultural and Musical Sustainability
6. 'The Real Thing': Tourism, Authenticity, and Pilgrimage among the Old Regular Baptists at the 1997 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
7. Music and Sustainability: An Ecological Viewpoint
8. Sustainability, Resilience, Adaptive Management, and Applied Ethnomusicology
III: Toward a Sound Ecology
9. A Sound Commons for All Living Creatures
10. The Nature of Ecomusicology
11. Thoreau's Ear
12. The Sound of Climate Change
13. Sustainability and a Sound Ecology
Notes
References
Selected List of Publications by Jeff Todd Titon
Index