Climate Action Week at the Music Library

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Sabine O'Donnell, TALint Student, Music Library

You may remember that back in April we did a display about Earth Music for Earth Day where we featured repertoire and books from our collection that focused on the environment. Well, since then, the Music Library has been working behind the scenes to create our own sustainability plan for the library. This is an ongoing process, but we are now ready to share some of the first steps. 

We wanted to share them with you now in honor of Climate Action Week (November 2-8, 2024). The key to this week is to connect libraries and climate change conversations in British Columbia and Ontario.

As part of our contribution to Climate Action Week, we have been collecting more resources for you from our collection. In addition to this blogpost and display, you can find them in our new LibGuide about Music and Sustainability. If you have any ideas or suggestions about what we could include in this plan, please let us know!

Books in the collection

Culture and sustainability

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Region and sustainability

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Activism

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  • Environmental sound artists: in their own words edited by Frederick Bianchi and V.J. Manzo, has a number of interviews with current environmental sound artists which really bring these issues home. Recommended chapters: “Listening to the earth” by John Bullitt and “River listening” by Leah Barclay.
  • At the crossroads of music and social justice edited by Brenda M. Romero, Susan M. Asai, David A. McDonald, Andrew G. Snyder, and Katelyn E. Best has been featured in a number of our displays because we think it does really important work on addressing social change. Recommended chapter: “Ecological frictions and borderless futures: art and activism on a sailing ship” by Rebekah E. Moore.
  • A song to save the Salish Sea: musical performance as environmental activism by Mark Pedelty chronicles the decades of environmental music for the Salish Sea on the west coast of Canada and the US and how they have been used to mobilize action. Recommended chapter: “Turtle Island’s Idle No More: The aural art of protest.”

Music and the Environment

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Electronic resources

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Recordings

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