Attending to the Nightingale

On a Multispecies Ethnomusicology

Bibliographic Data

ID2650596
AuthorsMichael Silvers (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Michael B Silvers (0000-0003-0675-5765, University of Illinois System, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume64
Issue2
Pages199-224
Publication date2020-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnomusicology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0014-1836 • E-ISSN: 2156-7417
PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5406/ethnomusicology.64.2.0199
OpenAlexW2955804927
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited99

Posthumanism, now in the mainstream of the humanities and humanistic social sciences, poses a challenge to ethnomusicology, a discipline inherently focused on the human and social aspects of music. Drawing from a survey of birds in the ethnomusicological scholarship and the author's research on music and birds in Brazil, this article proposes an approach to ethnomusicology that emphasizes nonhuman factors and their own properties and effects as a method for better understanding music as a meaningful human phenomenon.O pós-humanismo, hoje no centro das correntes das ciências humanas e sociais, coloca um desafio à etnomusicologia, área intrinsecamente focada nos aspectos humanos e sociais da música. Partindo de uma visão geral das aves no campo etnomusicológico e da pesquisa do autor sobre música e aves no Brasil, o presente artigo propõe uma abordagem etnomusicológica que dá ênfase a fatores não humanos e suas propriedades e efeitos característicos como um método para entender melhor a música como um fenômeno humano significativo

Art · Ethnomusicology · Humanism · Humanities · Humanity · Mainstream · Musical · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Diverse Musicological Studies · Music History and Culture · Music Technology and Sound Studies · Philosophy