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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 43–70.
Published: 01 May 2013
... into the wild, his flute-like songs and timbre spread throughout the local lyrebird population. We count ourselves among those who admire the sonic achievements of this bioregion's “flute lyrebirds.” These Superb Lyrebirds ( Menura novaehollandiae ) do indeed deliver an unusual and extraordinarily complex...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 69–93.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Andrew Mark Abstract This paper describes Bob Wiseman's allegorical piece, Uranium, arguing that it accesses emotion to alter the consciousness of percipients. Audiences respond with unusual intensity to Uranium's tragic environmental narrative. By using puppet theatre, film, comedy, and song...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 302–323.
Published: 01 November 2019
.... Producing an operatic complex of song, instrumentation, dance, and stage design, the male lyrebird’s composition is thoroughly entangled with the flora and fauna of his umwelt . Resistant to categorization by any generic label, Cooke argues that the lyrebird’s composition is best approached in the terms...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 129–148.
Published: 01 May 2017
... of their works. Wong encoded lyrics from the song “It’s a Small World After All” within the DNA of a bacterium. Similarly, Kac employs encipherment in Genesis , a project aiming to demonstrate that “biological processes are now writerly.” In the same way, Bök’s The Xenotext: Book 1 , published in 2015, involved...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 113–135.
Published: 01 May 2021
... conservation, and the ethics of knowing the nonhuman world. 49. Nice, Studies in the Life History of the Song Sparrow II , 273 . 50. Nice, Studies in the Life History of the Song Sparrow II , 1–2 . 51. Katz, Animals and Men , 46 . 52. See Burkhardt, Patterns of Behavior , 162...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 230–242.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of our surroundings, with aims of grounding ways of living together at the intersection and convergence of any number of acoustic assemblages. I focus on one example from this project, my composition called “speak to me of yesterday and tomorrow (elusive as the dead),” as it relates to the song...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 41–67.
Published: 01 May 2014
...), Earth Cry (1986), and Kakadu (1988). Sculthorpe confesses to being political in his work, which, he claims, “has always been about the preservation of the environment, and, more recently, climate change.” His Song of the Yarra (2009) embraces these issues and also speaks of Reconciliation...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 494–498.
Published: 01 July 2022
... of a somewhat different inflection today. In “Song of Myself,” for example, Whitman highlights how human and nonhuman vitalities mingle and jostle: The blab of the pave, tires of carts, sluff of boot-soles, talk of the promenaders, The heavy omnibus, the driver with his interrogating thumb, the clank...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 53–71.
Published: 01 May 2015
..., in the second week of August, they all disappeared ... There was not a sound of the song of a bird. It was eerie, terrifying. What was man doing to our perfect and beautiful world? Finally, five months later a blue jay appeared and a wren. 8 Life in such a perfect world was thus accompanied...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 196–214.
Published: 01 November 2016
... Reader , edited by Bull Michael and Back Les , 223 – 41 . Oxford : Berg , 2003 . Feld Steven . “ Waterfalls of Song: An Acoustemology of Place Resounding in Bosavi, Papua New Guinea .” In Senses of Place , edited by Feld Steven and Basso Keith , 91 – 135 . Santa...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 172–195.
Published: 01 November 2016
... of environmental sounds in a single work ( Earth and the Great Weather )” (Adams, Winter Music , 123). Yet Adams has had an influence on soundscape artists, notably composer and musician Derek Charke, whose works Cercle du Nord III (2005) and Tundra Songs (2007) evoke the various acoustic ecologies of Arctic...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 87–108.
Published: 01 March 2023
... increased soil temperatures and produce sound with more intention when their body temperatures are elevated. 25 In other words, their songs adapt in response to environmental change. Cicadas serve as bioindicators, organisms involved in a process of signaling environmental events. Cicadas are among...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 187–207.
Published: 01 March 2023
... with the Fulni-ô toré (ritual song and dance) tradition, which was considered the sole marker of Indigenous identity by the Brazilian authorities during twentieth-century retomadas. Other Indigenous groups then reclaimed the toré , including the Kariri-Xocó, during their political struggles for land...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 351–370.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of these works, “The Song of the Darling River” (1899), gives voice to the river as a living entity, although only to suggest that it desires for its flows to become more regulated—to become a proper river: “I want fair homes on my lonely ways, A people’s love and a people’s praise— And rosy children to dive...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 438–456.
Published: 01 July 2022
... tour whenever he came back to Mexico. The videos they had posted online were slick, professional productions, shot in fancy locales and edited with dramatic verve, with Roberto alternatively crooning on a stage with his band members or playing a role in the stories these songs told of amorous betrayals...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 71–91.
Published: 01 May 2013
... agencies of the material world. He goes hunting for birds, “creeping on hands and knees through matted thorn,” but knows how elusive they are, and how indifferent to his projects. Most of his contact with birds was through their song. While he became expert in distinguishing the different refrains...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 35–53.
Published: 01 May 2014
... and Sedrez Lize , eds. A History of Environmentalism: Local Struggles, Global Histories . London : Bloomsbury , 2014 . Bate Jonathan . The Song of the Earth . London : Picador , 2000 [ 2001 ed.]). Bergthaller Hannes . “ ‘No More Eternal than the Hills of the Poets...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 243–260.
Published: 01 March 2024
... elements in my body map. I explained that they referred to songs and song creation, which sparked her interest because she was a musician. She found her colleagues and before long there was a jam session going on around the body map, my visitors playing ukulele and singing while I played kazoo. Cohen...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 162–181.
Published: 01 March 2022
... poiesis .” 78 While snails “write” with their trails, whales communicate by singing. Curiously, their songs also communicate very powerfully with humans. Katharine Dow remarks on “the huge positive impact that the popular dissemination of audio recordings of humpback whale song had on the campaign...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 84–107.
Published: 01 May 2017
... humans would identify as a category distinction is coded into the alarm. 42 Or we might consider the songs of songbirds whose arcopallium (the avian structures homologous to the mammalian amygdala) responds to the song of other birds in ways that resemble the ways that human amygdalae respond...
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