Musica per l’ambiente: atti del convegno di studi (Napoli, 13-14 novembre 2024)

Abstract

The volume collects the proceedings of the international conference Music for the Environment (Naples, November 13 and 14, 2024), an important awareness-raising initiative aimed at strengthening civic sense with regard to the environmental problem. In recent years, the issue of anthropogenic pollution and its impact on nature has become increasingly important, stimulating profound changes in everyday life. Sustainability now guides every sector of social life, and even the academic world is engaged in various areas of research to propose and test solutions that can contribute to a ‘green shift’. Among the various sources of environmental pollution, as demonstrated by some of the contributions in the volume, music holds a considerable specific weight. This is mainly due to the organization of live events, the consumption of streaming music, and the production of records and instruments. However, as other contributions highlight, music can also be a virtuous example of sustainability, effectively limiting its environmental impact, and it can represent a powerful means of change in contributing to the construction of more environmentally responsible communities.