Description: Performing Environmentalisms by John Holmes McDowell, Katherine Borland, Rebecca Dirksen, Sue Tuohy, Aaron S. Allen, Eduardo S. Brondizio, Assefa Tefera Dibaba, Mary Hufford Performing Environmentalisms examines the existential challenge of the twenty-first century: improving the prospects for maintaining life on our planet. The contributors focus on the strategic use of traditional artistic expression--storytelling and songs, crafted objects, and ceremonies and rituals--performed during the social turmoil provoked by environmental degradation and ecological collapse. Highlighting alternative visions of what it means to be human, the authors place performance at the center of peoples responses to the crises. Such expression reinforces the agency of human beings as they work, independently and together, to address ecological dilemmas. The essays add these peoples critical perspectives--gained through intimate struggle with life-altering force--to the global dialogue surrounding humanitys response to climate change, threats to biocultural diversity, and environmental catastrophe. Interdisciplinary in approach and wide-ranging in scope, Performing Environmentalisms is an engaging look at the merger of cultural expression and environmental action on the front lines of todays global emergency.Contributors: Aaron S. Allen, Eduardo S. Brondizio, Assefa Tefera Dibaba, Rebecca Dirksen, Mary Hufford, John Holmes McDowell, Mark Pedelty, Jennifer C. Post, Chie Sakakibara, Jeff Todd Titon, Rory Turner, Lois Wilcken FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography John Holmes McDowell is a professor of folklore and ethnomusicology at Indiana University. His books include Poetry and Violence: The Ballad Tradition of Mexicos Costa Chica. Katherine Borland is an associate professor and director of the Center for Folklore Studies at The Ohio State University. Rebecca Dirksen is an associate professor of folklore and ethnomusicology at Indiana University and the author of After the Dance, the Drums Are Heavy: Carnival, Politics, and Musical Engagement in Haiti. Sue Tuohy is an emerita senior lecturer of folklore and ethnomusicology and adjunct faculty in East Asian languages and cultures and in global and international studies at Indiana University. Long Description Performing Environmentalisms examines the existential challenge of the twenty-first century: improving the prospects for maintaining life on our planet. The contributors focus on the strategic use of traditional artistic expression--storytelling and songs, crafted objects, and ceremonies and rituals--performed during the social turmoil provoked by environmental degradation and ecological collapse. Highlighting alternative visions of what it means to be human, the authors place performance at the center of peoples responses to the crises. Such expression reinforces the agency of human beings as they work, independently and together, to address ecological dilemmas. The essays add these peoples critical perspectives--gained through intimate struggle with life-altering force--to the global dialogue surrounding humanitys response to climate change, threats to biocultural diversity, and environmental catastrophe. Interdisciplinary in approach and wide-ranging in scope, Performing Environmentalisms is an engaging look at the merger of cultural expression and environmental action on the front lines of todays global emergency. Contributors: Aaron S. Allen, Eduardo S. Brondizio, Assefa Tefera Dibaba, Rebecca Dirksen, Mary Hufford, John Holmes McDowell, Mark Pedelty, Jennifer C. Post, Chie Sakakibara, Jeff Todd Titon, Rory Turner, Lois Wilcken Details ISBN0252044037 Short Title Performing Environmentalisms Pages 296 Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 0252044037 ISBN-13 9780252044038 Format Hardcover Subtitle Expressive Culture and Ecological Change Imprint University of Illinois Press Place of Publication Baltimore Country of Publication United States Publication Date 2021-09-14 UK Release Date 2021-09-14 NZ Release Date 2021-09-14 US Release Date 2021-09-14 Illustrations 35 black & white photographs, 6 line drawings, 2 maps, 3 charts Author Mary Hufford Publisher University of Illinois Press Alternative 9780252052972 Edited by Sue Tuohy DEWEY 700.103 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2021-09-13 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161656960;
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ISBN-13: 9780252044038
Book Title: Performing Environmentalisms: Expressive Culture and Ecological Change
Item Height: 229mm
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Author: Sue Tuohy, Katherine Borland, Rebecca Dirksen, John Holmes McDowell
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Geology, Music, Mythology
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication Year: 2021
Type: Textbook
Number of Pages: 296 Pages
