Music and the Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Plant: Style, Aesthetics, and Environmental Politics in Iceland

Størvold, Tore

doi:10.1080/03007766.2018.1469390

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“…Conceptions about the beauty and purity of nature have also been prevalent in the aesthetic practices of popular music, commonly rooted in (national-)romantic discourse and notions of cultural heritage (Dibben 2009;Mitchell 2017;Størvold 2019). As Dibben (2017: 169) notes in relation to popular music's construction of the Icelandic landscape, music is "inspired by and expresses particular views about the natural environment as 'pure wilderness' through its visual, sonic, and linguistic representation".…”

Section: Music and Environmental Crisismentioning

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The Earth is Sick: Environmentalism and the Politics of Age and Gender in Children’s Musical Culture

Hansen

2020

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Anthropogenic climate change is among the most widely debated topics of our time, and recent years have seen the growing impact of children's involvement in environmental issues. While Greta Thunberg and the School Strike for Climate movement are key examples in this regard, there is another tendency deserving of attention that involves the increased prominence of environmentalism in children's music and culture. This article investigates the song and music video Kloden er syk ("The Earth is Sick") by Anna & Emma, which won the 2019 edition of the Norwegian music competition Melodi Grand Prix Junior. I explore how the audiovisual aesthetics of Kloden er syk encourage solidarity for environmentalist causes, and also discuss disparaging responses to the song and video in order to explicate how age and gender are politicized for the purpose of discrediting young activists and musicians. Ultimately, the article aims to shed light on the distinctly musical (and sociopolitical) ways in which children and young people are implicated in environmental debates.

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Section: Music and Environmental Crisismentioning

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The Earth is Sick: Environmentalism and the Politics of Age and Gender in Children’s Musical Culture

Hansen

2020

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“…5 The seismic undercurrents of the Icelandic landscape are increasingly relevant to its national politics today. Elsewhere, I have discussed Iceland's troublesome history of hydropower production (Størvold 2019). Like its waterfalls and rivers, its volcanism has not escaped attempts at industrial transformation for energy production.…”

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Musical aesthetics below ground: volcanic action and the geosocial in Sigur Rós’s “Brennisteinn”

Størvold

2020

Journal of Aesthetics & Culture

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This article presents a musicological and ecocritical close reading of the song "Brennisteinn" ("sulphur" or, literally, "burning rock") by the acclaimed post-rock band Sigur Rós. The songand its accompanying music video-features musical, lyrical, and audiovisual means of registering the turbulence of living in volcanic landscapes. My analysis of Sigur Rós's music opens up a window into an Icelandic cultural history of inhabiting a risky Earth, a condition captured by anthropologist Gísli Pálsson's concept of geosociality, which emerged from his ethnography in communities living with volcanoes. Geosociality allows for a "down to earth" perspective that accounts for the liveliness of the ground below our feet. Likewise, in Sigur Rós's "Brennisteinn", we encounter a musical imagination of the geologic that poses a challenge to hegemonic concepts of nature founded on notions of equilibrium and permanence. The article culminates with a consideration of what such a geologically minded aesthetics can offer us in the age of the Anthropocene.

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Environmentalism in popular music education: A critical pedagogy and Students as Partners approach

Weston

Coutts

2024

Journal of Popular Music Education

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In the face of looming environmental catastrophe, music educators have an obligation to support students in finding ways to navigate and respond to environmental change through their practice. Data from a survey of popular music students in an Australian higher music education institution showed that while students held serious concerns about environmental threats, they did not feel empowered to address these through their music and could not envisage a role for music education to support them to do so. It is proposed that a praxial pedagogical framework informed by critical pedagogy, and supported through the Students as Partners approach, would help popular music students to develop their musician activist identities and empower them to respond to the challenges of a changing climate through their art.

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Music and the Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Plant: Style, Aesthetics, and Environmental Politics in Iceland

Cited by 4 publications

References 33 publications

The Earth is Sick: Environmentalism and the Politics of Age and Gender in Children’s Musical Culture

The Earth is Sick: Environmentalism and the Politics of Age and Gender in Children’s Musical Culture

Musical aesthetics below ground: volcanic action and the geosocial in Sigur Rós’s “Brennisteinn”

Environmentalism in popular music education: A critical pedagogy and Students as Partners approach

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