Voices of Drought by Michael B Silvers

Voices of Drought by Michael B Silvers

In Voices of Drought, Michael B. Silvers proposes a scholarship focused on environmental justice to understand key questions in the study of music and the environment. His ecomusicological perspective offers a fascinating approach to events in Ceará, a northeastern Brazilian state affected by devastating droughts. These crises have a profound impact on social difference and stratification, and thus on forró music in the sertão (backlands) of the region. At the same time, the complex interactions of popular music and social conditions also help create the environment. Silvers offers case studies focused on the sertão that range from the Brazilian wax harvested in Ceará for use in early wax cylinder sound recordings to the drought- and austerity-related cancellation of Carnival celebrations in 2014-16. Unearthing links between music and the environmental and social costs of drought, his daring synthesis explores ecological exile, poverty, and unequal access to water resources alongside issues like corruption, prejudice, unbridled capitalism, and expanding neoliberalism.

"This unique and timely work offers an important contribution to our understanding of how music and ecology are linked"--Jennifer C. Post, editor of Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader, Volume II

Michael B. Silvers is an assistant professor of musicology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Title	Voices of Drought
Author	Michael B Silvers
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Illinois Press
Year published	2018-10-16
Number of pages	212
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