Titre : Ancient Voices and Deep Ecology: Song as a convergence between landscape, politics and emotion in mountain society Auteurs : Jennifer Bonn Lombard, Revue : Art and Science Numéro : Special issue
Volume : 4 Date : 2020/01/14 DOI : 10.21494/ISTE.OP.2020.0455 ISSN : 2515-8767 Résumé : Song simultaneously activates body functions, emotional centers and the intellect. All three participate in the exchange that the singer initiates with his or her environment. In the mountains, for the communities who live there, this environment is a major source of sustenance for the physical body, of experiences for generating emotional response, and of inspiration for the intellect. Song is an ode, a conversation, but also a negociation with Nature, and the natural environment can be generous or miserly, benevolent or threatening. Through examples taken from research in both the French Pyrenees and the Argentinian Andes, this essay will allow us to discover how the functions and effects of ancestral song forge, maintain and care for complex, essential relationships with the natural environment, and how the environmental perspectives that these relationships open resonate with contemporary thinking on ecology as it is practiced by researchers such as Arne Naess, Isabelle Stengers, Donna Haraway or Brian Massumi. A relation to place that which is a deep commitment that merges emotion and politics, body and space. Éditeur : ISTE OpenScience