Earth's wild music Celebrating and defending the songs of the natural world : new and selected essays
Book - 2021
"In her newest collection, Moore selects essays that celebrate the music of the natural world as a reminder of what can be taken from us-the yowl of wolves, tick of barnacles, laughter of children, shriek of falling mountains. Alongside these selections are brand new essays born from the sorrow and iniquity of this new age of extinction, all bearing witness to the glories of this world and the sins against it. Each group of essays moves, as Moore herself has been moved, from celebration to lamentation to bewilderment to the determination to act. In Earth's Wild Music, Moore reminds us that whatever is left of the planet after its pillaging is the world in which those who remain must live. Whatever genetic song-lines, whatever frag...ments of whale-squeal and shattered harmonies are left, that's what evolution will have to work with. Music is the shivering urgency and exuberance of life on-going. In a time of terrible silencing, Moore asks, who will forgive us if we do not save the songs?"--Provided by publisher.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Essays
- Published
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Berkeley, California :
Counterpoint Press
2021.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First hardcover edition
- Physical Description
- xviii, 249 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBN
- 9781640093676
- Preface / The Work of Loving the World
- Prologue / The Music in Their Bones
- 1. Tremble
- Symphony No. 9, Scored for Cactus
- Earth's Wild Music
- The Sound of Human Longing
- Praise Songs I-VII (When Darkness Turns Unexpectedly to Light)
- The Love Child of Father Time and Mother Earth
- Repeat the Sounding Joy
- Songs in the Night
- Listening for Bears
- 2. Weep
- The Tadpole Motet
- The Silence of the Humpback Whale
- The Meadowlark's Broken Song
- The Terrible Silence of the Empty Sky (Intergalactic Space)
- The Terrible Silence of the Empty Sky (Forest)
- The Terrible Silence of the Empty Sky (Seashore)
- Twelve Heartbreaking Sounds That Will Remain
- Sorrow Fired to the Strength of Stone
- 3. Awaken
- Living Like Birds
- Sleep, Judy Francine
- Alarm Calls
- Another Marshland Elegy
- Late at Night, Listening
- Silence Like Scouring Sand
- The Song of the Canyon Wren
- How Can I Keep from Singing?
- 4. Sing Out
- After the Fire, Silence and a Raven
- We Will Emerge Full-Throated from the Dark Shelter of Our Despair (The Dawn Chorus)
- The Sound of Mountains Melting
- Rachel's Wood Pewee (On Wonder)
- Hear the Wind Blow
- Be the Bear
- Hope Is Not the Thing with Feathers (A History)
- Why We Won't Quit
- Epilogue / Sing Out from the Mountaintops
- Acknowledgments / A Chorus of Friends
- Notes
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