Music for the Environment. Proceedings of the study conference (Naples, November 13 and 14, 2024)

Giorgio Ruberti

doi:10.6093/978-88-6887-360-8

Music for the Environment. Proceedings of the study conference (Naples, November 13 and 14, 2024)

Authors

Giorgio Ruberti

University of Naples Federico II

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5735-7081

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6887-360-8

Keywords:

Music, Environment, Sustainability, Ecomusicology, Ecoacoustics

Synopsis

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: Musical Clefs

Pages: 126

Language: Italian

Abstract: The volume collects the proceedings of the international conference Music for the Environment (Naples, November 13 and 14, 2024), an important awareness-raising initiative aimed at strengthening civic sense with regard to the environmental problem. In recent years, the issue of anthropogenic pollution and its impact on nature has become increasingly important, stimulating profound changes in everyday life. Sustainability now guides every sector of social life, and even the academic world is engaged in various areas of research to propose and test solutions that can contribute to a ‘green shift’. Among the various sources of environmental pollution, as demonstrated by some of the contributions in the volume, music holds a considerable specific weight. This is mainly due to the organization of live events, the consumption of streaming music, and the production of records and instruments. However, as other contributions highlight, music can also be a virtuous example of sustainability, effectively limiting its environmental impact, and it can represent a powerful means of change in contributing to the construction of more environmentally responsible communities.

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Author Biography

Giorgio Ruberti, University of Naples Federico II

Giorgio Ruberti is Associate Professor of Musicology and History of Music at the Department of Humanities of the University of Naples “Federico II”. A disciple of Enrico Careri and Antonio Rostagno, his main research interests include 19th-century Italian opera and classical Neapolitan song, topics on which he has published the monographs Il verismo musicale (Lim 2011) and Forme e stili della canzone napoletana classica (Lim 2016). Recently he is deepening the relationship between music and environment in ecomusicologic perspective. He is a member of the scientific committee of the Centro Studi Canzone Napoletana and of the PhD in Music and Performing Arts at the Sapienza University of Rome.