Abstract
AbstractThis chapter provides a musical analysis of the benefits of COVID-19 on the climate and environmental sustainability in southern Nigeria. This chapter seeks to contribute to the discourse on climate change, environmental degradation, and the need for sustainability with reference to the global coronavirus pandemic and isolationism. This chapter employs phone interviews and WhatsApp calls and messages as methods for gathering musical, textual, and video data for analysis of selected musicians. Drawing on the concept of slow violence and environmentalism of the poor and informed by ecomusicological theory, the author argues that music has potential to explain current environmental issues as well as the restoration of environmental sustainability through global isolationism and reduced air travel and industrial pollution.
Publisher
Oxford University PressNew York
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