RESEARCH
In this page I gathered all my research outputs to date. Click on any of the titles to read the paper.
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Lecture. Music and Ethnomusicology in a time of environmental crisis.
What is the role of music and sound in addressing the environmental crisis? In search of answers, I undertook an eco-ethnomusicological study of music and sound as responses to the cultural rupture between humans and the natural world that lies at the heart of the crisis. This lecture draws on case studies from applied research and artistic practice focused on sound-mediated forms of environmentalism in my native region of Central Italy. There I investigated how cultural, conservation, and environmentalist organizations—together with individual artists and performers—use sonic practices to foster ecological awareness, action, and reconnection. Building on this fieldwork experience, I ultimately reflect on the contribution of music and ethnomusicology in creating a more ecocentric society.
PhD Thesis
Single-authored Books
Forthcoming. Sound-mediated Environmentalisms: Eco-Ethnomusicological Encounters in Tuscany. Routledge. Under contract, currently in preparation. Book of c.90,000 words.
Peer-reviewed Articles
2026. “Pop environmentalism: an ecomusicological analysis of Italian singers Elisa, Francesco Gabbani, and Jovanotti.” Journal of World Popular Music 12(2), 212-235. https://doi.org/10.1558/jwpm.33029
Book Reviews
2024. “Sounds, ecologies, musics.” Aaron S. Allen and Jeff Todd Titon, eds. New York, Oxford University Press, 2023, viii + 313 pp., £64.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-19-754664-2, £22.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-19-754665-9. Ethnomusicology Forum 33 (2-3): 278-280.
2024. “Rahaim, Matthew. Ways of Voice: Vocal Striving and Moral Contestation in North India and Beyond. Matthew Rahaim. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2021. xi, 257 pp.” Asian Musicology 31: 145-148.
2024. “Tore Størvold. 2023. Dissonant Landscapes: Music, Nature, and the Performance of Iceland. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press. 216 pp. ISBN 978-0-8195-0049-6 (pbk)” Journal of World Popular Music 11: 97-100.
2024. “Benvegnù, D., and Gilebbi, M. (Eds.). (2022). Italy and the Ecological Imagination. Ecocritical Theories and Practices. Vernon Press.” Journal of Ecohumanism 3: 285-287.
Other Articles
2023. “Assiolo.” SONIC SCOPE 5.
2022. “The Sound of Extinction.” Uprooted (2). UCC Green Campus.
Conference papers and contributions
“Sound-Mediated Environmentalisms in Contemporary Tuscany”- presented at the Sound for Sustainability Symposium, 6-7 June 2025, Trinity College Dublin.
“Tuscany eco-festival: music, sound and social engagement” – presented at the Royal Musical Association annual conference, 11-13 September 2024, London.
“Il Canto del Lago: Sounding Ecological Care and Connectons in Natural Parks and Conservation Areas in Central Italy” – Presented at “ Sounds of Dissent”: A Practice-Based Research Symposium on Music, Sounds and the Political.” Dublin City University, 11 – 12 April 2024.
“Il Canto del Lago: Applied Scholarship, Artistic Practice, and Social Engagement in Eco-ethnomusicology” – Presented at the annual British Forum for Ethnomusicology Conference, University College Cork,4-7 April 2024, Ireland.
“’Of Sounds and Footsteps’: an Eco-Ethnomusicological Approach to Soundwalk” – Presented at the SMI and ICTMD-IE Joint Postgraduate Conference, Maynooth University, 12-13 January 2024; and at the 2024 Society for Ethnomusicology annual conference on 18 October 2024.
“’I canti della Terra’: Virtual Fieldwork in Eco-Ethnomusicology” – Presented at the Society for Ethnomusicology Global Online Chapter Meeting on the 6th of May 2023, and at the Autumn British Forum for Ethnomusicology online conference on the 4th of November 2023.
“Walking through Sound and Wood: using music and movement to reconnect to the landscape in central Italy” – Annual British Forum for Ethnomusicology Conference, Edinburgh University 13-16 April 2023.
“Localized Sonic Connection to places as a response to the eco-cultural crisis.” – Paper presented at 2022 Eco-Creativity Conference: The Arts Mapping Emotional Landscapes of the Climate and Ecological Crises, 18-19 November 2022, Virtual Conference, The Open University.
“Pastina” Sound composition played at “Sonic Cartography” Conference at Kent University, 28-30 October 2022.
“Ordinary Musicians’ Actions in Karnatik Music as a Process of Resilience and Sustainability” – Paper presented at 2022 Annual BFE Conference, The Open University, Milton Keynes 7-10 April.