The course is conducted in English。。A15:Literature and Arts , Civil Awareness and Social Analysis

This course is an experimental exploration into what the study of music and sound can contribute to a planet in crisis. Due to the continuous unfolding of our planet’s environmental emergency, we will be grappling with very new, very urgent, and sometimes seemingly impossibly big ideas. We emphasize inter-disciplinary co-learning, radiating outwards from recent discussions regarding the chrono-stratigraphic naming of the “Anthropocene” as a geological epoch in which humans have become a decisive geological force that impacts the earth’s ecosystems. We seek to find inspiration from the various fields of ecomusicology, ethnomusicology, sound studies, and environmental humanities, to engage with and channel knowledge into an applied form and collaborate on creative, educational, and/or activist projects for addressing the challenges of our collective future on this planet. Of course, music and sound will not be the sole solution, but our attempt will be to inspire awareness and action in every discipline and every sphere of life. *This is an all-English course for students with native speaker proficiency in English, with weekly reading and writing assignments, and more opportunities for in-depth discussion of the readings in class. Students are advised to self-assess their English proficiency level before choosing this class. Students can also choose to take the same course titled “Applied Musicology for the Anthropocene 01” if they are interested in the course subject but hesitant about their English skills.*

1) To reflect on how humans interact with the environment and other non-human beings through musicking, sounding, and listening. 2) To analyze the relationships among your self, life, environment and issues in the Anthropocene. 3) To develop an interdisciplinary perspective and skills in team-work, critical thinking, asking questions, and integrating knowledge from various fields; to creatively apply knowledge gained from class towards designing an action plan utilizing music and sound to address an urgent Anthropocene issue.

1) Reading and discussion: students should complete all readings before class and engage actively in class discussion. 2) Writing: students will write a short response paper (250-300 words in English) to a) summarize the weekly reading and b) bring up two questions in response to the readings for discussion in class each week. Response papers are due by noon the day before class. 3) Mid-term and final project report: students will form groups to collaborate on a creative project for applied musicology, the format of which will emerge from class readings and discussions.

Week 3 - Watch Video: “John Luther Adams: Music in the Anthropocene,” Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWG0zpPOGcQ Weeks 4 - Donna Haraway, Noboru Ishikawa, Scott F. Gilbert, Kenneth Olwig, Anna L. Tsing, and Nils Bubandt. 2016. “Anthropologists Are Talking – About the Anthropocene,” Ethnos, pp. 535-564. Week 5 - Jeff T. Titon. 2013. "The Nature of Ecomusicology," Music E Cultura, pp. 8-18. Weeks 7 - Margaret Q. Guyette and Jennifer C. Post. 2016. “Ecomusicology, Ethnomusicology, and Soundscape Ecology: Scientific and Musical Responses to Sound Study” In Current Directions in Ecomusicology: Music, Culture, Nature, New York: Routledge, pp. 40-56. Week 8 - Lin, Y-R et al. 2020. “Situating Indigenous Resilience: Climate Change and Tayal’s “Millet Ark” Action in Taiwan,” Sustainability 12(24), p. 10676. Week 12 - Eric Clark, Tia DeNora, and Jonna Vuoskoski. 2015. “Music, empathy and cultural understanding.” Physics of Life Reviews, pp. 61-88. Week 13 - Marina Roseman. 1991. “Introduction.” In Healing sounds from the Malaysian rainforest: Temiar music and medicine, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 1-17. Week 14 - Anthony Seeger. 2016. “Natural Species, Sounds, and Humans in Lowland South America: The Kïsêdjê/Suyá, Their World, and the Nature of Their Musical Experience.” In Current Directions in Ecomusicology: Music, Culture, Nature, New York: Routledge, pp. 89-98. Week 15 - Steven Feld. 1996. “Waterfalls of song: An acoustemology of place resounding in Bosavi, Papua New Guinea.” In Senses of Place, Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, pp. 91-135.

Aaron S. Allen. 2018. “One Ecology and Many Ecologies: The Problem and Opportunity of Ecology for Music and Sound Studies,” MUSICultures, pp. 1-13. Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Nils Bubandt, Elaine Gan, and Heather Anne Swanson. 2017. “Introduction: haunted landscapes of the Anthropocene.” In Arts of living on a damaged planet: ghosts and monsters of the Anthropocene, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 1-14. Deborah Bird Rose. 2017. “Shimmer: when all you love is being trashed.” In Arts of living on a damaged planet: ghosts and monsters of the Anthropocene, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 51-64. Eliot Bates. 2020. “Resource ecologies, political economies and the ethics of audio technologies in the Anthropocene,” Popular Music, pp. 66-87. Franc?ois Ribac and Paul Harkins. 2020. “Popular music and the Anthropocene,” Popular Music, pp. 1-21. Jason Moore. 2016. “Introduction.” In Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism. Oakland, CA: PM Press, pp. 1-14. Judith Becker. 2010. “Exploring the Habitus of Listening: Anthropological Perspectives.” In Handbook of music and emotion: theory, research, and applications, Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 128-152. Julianne Graper. 2018. “Bat City: Becoming with Bats in the Austin Music Scene,” MUSICultures, pp. 14-31. Kate Turner and Bill Freedman. 2010. “Music and environmental studies,” The Journal of Environmental Education, pp. 45-52. Klisala Harrison. 2015. “The Second Wave of Applied Ethnomusicology.” MUSICultures, pp. 15-30. Koen, Benjamin D., Gregory Barz, and Kenneth Brummel-Smith. 2011. “Introduction: Confluence of Consciousness in Music, Medicine, and Culture.” In The Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethnomusicology, Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 3-17. Marina Roseman. 1991. “Introduction.” In Healing sounds from the Malaysian rainforest: Temiar music and medicine, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 1-23. Pedelty et.al. 2020. “Field-to-media: applied ecomusicology in the Anthropocene,” Popular Music, pp. 22-42. Steven Feld. 1996. “Waterfalls of song: An acoustemology of place resounding in Bosavi, Papua New Guinea.” In Senses of Place, Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, pp. 91-135. Theodore Levin. 2006. “The world is alive with the music of sound.” In Where Rivers and Mountains Sing: Sound, Music, and Nomadism in Tuva and Beyond, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 26-40. Thomas Turino. 2008. “Introduction: why music matters,” and “Music and political movements.” In Music as social life: the politics of participation, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, pp. 1-22, 189-224.