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Minor Listening, Major Influence: Revisiting Songs of the Humpback Whale
Alaina Claire Feldman
What is it about these specific sounds and the discourse around them that was able to capture the imagination of so many people and produce such emotional responses and judicial consequences for the environment? While whale vocalizations seem like an obvious and prevalent sonic rendering of nature, the narrative around the Songs of the Humpback Whale record is much more complex than a quick summary can describe. The album had wide-ranging effects far beyond marine biology or burgeoning environmental movements—for instance, making conceptual connections between explorations of the ocean and the cosmos, and creating a now-common way of accessing animal life through certain listening practices.
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 12, 2021
Category
Music, Nature & Ecology
Subjects
Animals, Human - Nonhuman Relations