2010 AMS Annual Meeting
At the 2010 AMS Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, the Ecocriticism Study Group held a session entitled “A Changing Climate: Ecomusicology and the Crisis of Global Warming.” As a seminar-style discussion, the session generated dialogue regarding the dynamic between musical communities and global warming. Panelists Aaron S. Allen (University of North Carolina at Greensboro), Stephanie Doktor (University of Virginia), Kate Galloway (University of Toronto), and Mark Pedelty (University of Minnesota) discussed their research in relation to the broader global warming conversation. The session featured a stirring performance by cantor Hunter Hensley of Requiem for the Mountains, a multimedia work that ruminates on the devastation of the Kentucky landscape from mountaintop coal removal.
A pre-circulated reading list included Al Gore’s Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis (2009), Cheryl Glotfelty’s “Literary Studies in an Age of Environmental Crisis” (in The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology, 1996), and Nancy Guy’s “Flowing Down Taiwan’s Tasumi River: Towards an Ecomusicology of the Environmental Imagination,” Ethnomusicology 53/2, 2009.
AMS ESG 2010 session, “A Changing Climate: Ecomusicology and the Crisis of Global Warming”:
- reading list and bios of participants (webpage distributed in advance)
- audio recording of session (MP3)
- text transcript of session (based on audio recording) (DOC)
- film showed during performance by Hunter Hensley during session (MOV)
AMS ESG 2010 business meeting:
- agenda (webpage)
- minutes (DOCX)