2008 AMS Annual Meeting
At the 2008 AMS Annual Meeting in Nashville (November 6-9), the Ecocriticism Study Group held a two-hour round table to discuss some of the methodological and disciplinary issues that face the emerging sub-field of ecocritical musicology. The session was led by a panel of scholars, each of whom offered a short response to pre-established (and publicly pre-circulated) questions; the audience and other panelists then had time for further discussion. The purpose of the roundtable was not to propose a final prescriptive definition of ecocritical musicology but rather to share thoughts about what an ecocritical approach might offer the discipline and its interdisciplinary relationships. We invited all interested AMS members to consider the issues and questions in advance and then come to the round table to further the dialogue. A brief bibliography (of works by members of the panel) and the first round of questions were provided in the session abstract.
The transcript of the discussion is here:
And the associated Powerpoint that was used is here:
An audio file of the discussion is also available here (note that it is a large — ca. 20MB — file and the audio quality is low, but it may be useful):