Music, Resilience and 'Soundscaping

Some Reflections on the War in Ukraine

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3032016
AutoresJanine Natalya Clark (0000-0002-4060-4082)
Año2024
Volumen18
Número1
Páginas150-170
Fecha de publicación2024-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCultural Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1749-9755 • E-ISSN: 1749-9763
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/17499755231151216
OpenAlexW4321601074
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13
Referencias citadas98

There exists a rich corpus of literature exploring some of the diverse roles - positive and negative - that music can play in war. This interdisciplinary article makes a novel contribution to this literature, and to research on the sociology of music more broadly, through its particular emphasis on resilience. Scholarship on resilience has increasingly moved beyond person-centred, psychology-based approaches towards more complex relational and multi-systemic framings that situate the concept in the interactions between individuals and their social ecologies (environments). However, it has given little attention to the sensory dimensions of these ecologies, including their acoustic dimensions. Focusing on the war in Ukraine and drawing primarily on media sources (including several online videos) to develop its analysis, the article argues that music can be a form and expression of resilience (and resistance) in war situations that directly acts on the acoustic ecology - a concept that to date has mainly been discussed within ecology and conservation research. Specifically, the article frames music as a form of 'soundscaping', in the sense of an active aligning of sound and wellbeing

Aesthetics · Biology · Embodied cognition · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Political science · Psychological resilience · Resilience (materials science · Resistance (ecology · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Diverse Musicological Studies · Psychology · Ecology · Social Psychology