Soundtracks of Climate Change
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Soundtracks of Climate Change
By (Author) Dr. Alexis Bennett
Edited by Dr. Annette Davison
Edited by Dr. John Richardson
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
8th January 2026
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Media studies
Social and cultural anthropology
Climate change
Physical Properties
Hardback
288
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
Description
This open access volume examines the functions, reach and effectiveness of sound in communicating and disseminating climate-related content across a variety of audiovisual media.
The humanities, and sub-disciplines within them, have clear roles and responsibilities in the climate crisis, and none more so than the audiovisual arts and media. It is through these receptors that most people learn truths and post-truths, receive news and fake news, are informed of scientific data, hear opinions from across the spectrum, and find inspiration for action.
Eco-Soundtracks tackles these issues from a variety of perspectives, encompassing different regions, media, ethnicities, genders, languages, genres, mainstream and experimental approaches, fictional and documentary aesthetics, scientific and rational as well as more aesthetically mediated and affectively amplified discourses.
It addresses perspectives from a variety of regional and transnational centres, including East Asia, Africa, the Nordic region, and Atlantic anglophone cultures. As we confront the climate crisis, this collection of articles by leading thinkers across film, music, and sound studies asks how climate change and audiovisual media work to convey the gravity and complexity of our experiences.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.
Author Bio
Alexis Bennet is Lecturer in Music at Goldsmiths University of London, UK. He is reviews editor of Music, Sound, and the Moving Image. He is also a composer and performer.
Annette Davison is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Edinburgh College of Art, UK. She is the author of several monographs and co-editor of edited volumes on audiovisual media including The Sounds of the Silents in Britain (2013) and Hollywood Theory, Non-Hollywood Practice: Cinema Soundtracks in the 1980s and 1990s (2017). She is on the editorial boards of American Music; Music, Sound and the Moving Image; and the Journal of Film Music.
John Richardson is Professor of Art History, Musicology and Media Studies at University of Turku, Finland. He is the author of Singing Archaeology: Philip Glasss Akhnaten (1999) and An Eye for Music: Popular Music and the Audiovisual Surreal (2012). He co-edited several collections, including Essays on Sound and Vision (2007), The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics (2013), and The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media (2013).
