Music and the Performing Arts in the Anthropocene

1. Introduction Part 1: Making nature Stage matters 2. Heating, ventilating, cleaning: air quality in performance halls in 19th-century Paris 3. Synthetic waters: aquatic spectacles in France in the 19th century 4. An investigation into gas lighting in 19th-century Parisian theatres On becoming modern 5. Naturally speaking about music? An inquiry into music journals, 1850-1930 6. Spectral music, nature and the ecological crisis 7. New music in the Anthropocene: notes of an apprenticeship Part 2: Tracking materiality Uncovering Genealogies 8. The making of Eco-Sonic Media: conversation with Jacob Smith 9. Organology and the silencing of musical instrument museums Current ecologies of musical instruments 10. Producing string quartets: wood, nature, and naturality 11. African wood and sustainable ambitions: the case of Warwick 12. The objects of free improvisation Part 3: Looking forward Performing what? 13. Do we really need new narratives? 14. The sound of the Anthropocene: Music and empowerment in a refugee camp 15. Le Grand Orchestre de la Transition: a grassroots project in retrospect Changing what? 16. Beyond sustainability: The music industries declare emergency on planet Earth - or do they? 17. An ecological redirection for music and the arts? A conversation with Diego Landivar