Dirty Musicology
An ecomusicology podcast by Jameson Foster (University of Colorado Boulder, Peabody Conservatory). Dirty Musicology explores our fraught relationship between ourselves and the land we inhabit from a cultural, rather than scientific perspective, with an emphasis on music, spirituality, and transcendentalist philosophy.
Jameson Foster is currently working towards his PhD in Ethnomusicology at the University of Colorado Boulder, with an M. M. in Musicology from Peabody Conservatory. While his expertise is in the music traditions and histories of the Nordic countries, his work is guided by a passion in ecological ethic and ecomusicology, with much of his work reflecting concern for how music works with or against attitudes of environmentalism, particularly how animist cosmology manifests in contemporary pagan music practice.
Dirty Musicology
The Ecological Cost of Nihilism, or a World Disenchanted
“I for one see the disasters wrought by man to be far more cruel than those that nature brings us. But however clever we may be at increasing our wretchedness through our institutions, we have till today not succeeded in perfecting ourselves so far that life in general has become a burden for us and we choose nothingness over being.”
Medium Article link:
https://jamesonfoster.medium.com/the-ecological-cost-of-nihilism-or-a-world-disenchanted-e22cfa33641d
Topics covered in this episode:
- Scientism
- Nihilism
- Land Ethic
- Detachment
- Music and Meaning