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(In)Solid Sounds, Ec((h))o Locations: Towards a Musical Praxis of More-Than-Human Solidarities and Climate Justice Futures

Crane, Jason Alan
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3938-7030
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1675266394224032

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2023, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, Communication Studies (Communication).
The climate crisis poses an existential threat to life on this planet and demands immediate action and forms of solidarity. In this dissertation, I explore how music can be leveraged to transform the shape and dynamics of solidarity frameworks in ways that are conducive to multi-species flourishing and modes of solidarity with a more-than-human world. I deploy a critical posthumanist (Braidotti, 2013, 2019) framework to amplify musical praxis as an ethical, affective, extra-linguistic, and “strategically transversal” mode of communicative engagement that opens possibilities for empathy and alliance beyond the particularist-universalist dichotomy that structures familiar but insufficient configurations of belonging—obligation. My central argument is that music can valuably contribute to more-than-human cartographic practices as they are articulated within a critical posthumanist paradigm and activate multi-species “response-abilities” (Haraway, 2016) and practices of care for the more-than-human world, and therefore has an important role to play in the service of climate justice.
Lynn Harter, Dr. (Committee Chair)
Brittany Peterson, Dr. (Committee Member)
Bill Rawlins, Dr. (Committee Co-Chair)
404 p.
Communication; Ecology; Music; Political Science
Music, solidarity, critical posthumanism, more-than-human, transversalism, climate justice

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  • Crane, J. A. (2023). (In)Solid Sounds, Ec((h))o Locations: Towards a Musical Praxis of More-Than-Human Solidarities and Climate Justice Futures [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1675266394224032

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Crane, Jason. (In)Solid Sounds, Ec((h))o Locations: Towards a Musical Praxis of More-Than-Human Solidarities and Climate Justice Futures. 2023. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1675266394224032.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Crane, Jason. "(In)Solid Sounds, Ec((h))o Locations: Towards a Musical Praxis of More-Than-Human Solidarities and Climate Justice Futures." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2023. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1675266394224032

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