Event details
Oct
25
Musicology Colloquium Series: Can Music Make a Difference to Climate Change?
At a time when solutions for climate change are expected from scientists and engineers, the question about what music can contribute may seem startling. However, climate protection does not merely consist in innovative technologies but also in significant changes of behavior. And here music has a lot to offer: as an art form that shapes time, it can help us come to terms with the perfidious temporality of climate change—in which we need to act right now, while knowing full well that not acting will have no immediate palpable consequences. So how can we motivate collective action? The talk discusses several examples of music that hold important climate lessons for us.
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