Category: Soundscapes
Saturday’s Endangered Music: The BaAka Pygmies of Cameroon
Some of the most beautiful and emotionally affecting singing I know of comes fro the BaAka Pygmies of Cameroon, who yodel polyrhythmic […]
Saturday’s Endangered Music: Tuva
“Throat Singing” from the Siberian nation of Tuva is one of the most remarkable phenomena in all world music; individual voices are […]
Saturday’s Endangered Music: Kashmir
In 1986, a friend and I traveled to Kashmir, which had not yet become a problematic destination for Western tourists. I had […]
Skating On Thin Ice: Music of Climate Change
Got an email at theclimatemessage@gmail.com linking to this extraordinary piece of work: Speculative Pop (Specu-Pop) . What would the world be like […]
Saturday’s Endangered Music: Fiji
Fiji is another one of the island nations looking to a climate-changed future that’s just around the corner. Some villages are already […]
“Wounds” is Spelled Almost Like “Sounds”
“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage […]
Saturday’s Endangered Music: The Jarawa People of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
A Jarawa Song. WIth limestone caves, gorgeous beaches, and mud volcanoes, the Andaman and Nicobar islands have become increasingly popular as a […]
Saturday’s Endangered Music: The Inuit
More than perhaps any other culture in the world, the Inuit peoples are on the absolute front line of our changing climate. […]
Junkies Can’t Care
Australia is hell-bent on destroying itself and everything around it. The new anti-science, pro-coal government is eagerly moving forward with plans to […]