Recomposed

The major look at the environmental impact of the music industry and a brilliant exploration of how musicians are thinking about and being influenced by the climate crisis

Everywhere you look, music is changing—overhauling itself in response to climate crisis. There are records made of plants, stereos that run on sunshine, streaming services powered like hot springs. There are nonprofit and investment initiatives geared toward environmental concerns. There are sector-specific carbon calculators, literacy programs, and organizations that are sizing up (and drawing down) the environmental impact of music on every level. Top to bottom, we are witnessing a climate-oriented transformation of what music is and how it comes to be.Preface
Introduction
The Great Recomposition
Part I: Technical Solutions
1. The Ecological Record
2. Vicious Cycles
3. Green Vinyl
4. Evolution Music
5. Will It Scale?
6. Building Better Fetishes
Part II: Institutional Solutions
7. The Carbon Question
8. ClimateEQ
9. Atmospheric Accounting
10. Future Energy Artists
11. EarthPercent
12. Beyond Carbon Convenience
Part III: Cultural Solutions
13. The Missing Link
14. We Make Tomorrow
15. A Behavioral Change Is Gonna Come
16. Set in Motion
17. The Future, Wouldn’t That Be Nice?
18. One Thing to Another
Postscript
Acknowledgements
Notes
IndexKyle Devine is a professor in environmental studies and dean of graduate studies at the University of Winnipeg. He is the author of Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music, an award-winning environmental history of the record industry.