AMS Ecocriticism Study Group

The Ecocriticism Study Group will be co-sponsoring a daytime special session with the Ludomusicology Study Group devoted to the sound and music of environmental crisis in video games. Titled "Catastrophe and Play," it will take place Friday November 1 from 12:30-2:00pm in Grand Ballroom B. Our unique session consists of two sets of paired papers, with each set featuring one presenter from Ludomusicology and one from Ecomusicology examining a common theme or the same game. The broad question that this approach explores is: how might ecomusicological approaches inform ludomusicological work (which often implicitly discusses the conveyance of environmental spaces through sound), and how might an ecomusicologist use a ludic approach to participation and interactivity to expand their consideration of a work’s significance and meaning? Our session will conclude with a response by Kate Galloway followed by a lively discussion.

 

We will also be hosting a short business meeting on Saturday, November 2, from 12:30-1:30 in room Commonwealth B, where we invite all conference attendees interested in sound studies, ecomusicology, and issue of environmentalism to join as we plan for the next year. Feel free to bring your own brown bag lunch.