Ecocriticism & Musicology

AMS Ecocriticism Study GroupNashville, 7 November 2008

-- Proposal to the AMS Board of Directors to recognize theAMS Ecocriticism Study Group (October 2007)

Panelists:Daniel Grimley, University of Nottingham

Grieg: Music, Landscape and Norwegian Identity (Woodbridge, 2006).

Alexander Rehding, Harvard University and Suzannah Clark, eds., Music Theory and Natural Order from

the Renaissance to the Early Twentieth Century (Cambridge, 2001).

“Eco-Musicology,” review article, Journal of the Royal Music Association 127 (2002): 305-20.

Brooks Toliver, University of Akron “Eco-ing in the Canyon: Ferde Grofé’s Grand Canyon Suite and the

Transformation of Wilderness,” JAMS 57/2 (2004): 325-367. Denise Von Glahn, Florida State University, College of Music

The Sounds of Place: Music and the American Cultural Landscape (Northeastern University Press, 2003).

Chair: Aaron S. Allen, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Questions1. What is an “ecocritical musicology”?

2. What methodologies could an ecocritical musicology espouse?

3. What role could ecocriticism have in affecting the discipline as a whole?

4. What role does activism play in scholarship, & how could that impact ecocritical musicology or the discipline itself?

5. Could an ecocritical musicology be socially relevant?

definitional

situational

Question 1: What is an “ecocritical musicology”?

Daniel GrimleyAlexander RehdingBrooks ToliverDenise Von GlahnDiscussion

Question 2: What methodologies could an ecocritical musicology espouse?

Daniel GrimleyAlexander RehdingBrooks ToliverDenise Von GlahnDiscussion

Question 3: What role could ecocriticism have in affecting the discipline as a whole?

Daniel GrimleyAlexander RehdingBrooks ToliverDenise Von GlahnDiscussion

Question 4: What role does activism play in scholarship, and how could that impact ecocritical musicology or the discipline itself? Daniel GrimleyAlexander RehdingBrooks ToliverDenise Von GlahnDiscussion

Question 5:Could an ecocritical musicology be socially relevant?

Daniel GrimleyAlexander RehdingBrooks ToliverDenise Von GlahnDiscussion

ESG BUSINESS MEETING AGENDA I. By-Laws {10 minutes}

1. Edits/Amendments 2. Vote

II. Elections {15 minutes} 1. Nominations

Chair : Aaron Allen Secretary-Treasurer: Robert Fallon Program Committee Chair: none Electronic Communications Chair: none

2. Vote III. Web Site {15 minutes}

1. Demonstration of current draft 2. Solicitation of further ideas

Events (Conferences) Resources (e.g. M.A. in Music and Geography at University of Nottingham)

IV. Other Items? {5 minutes} 1. Greening AMS