Aaron Allen discusses Musicology & the Environment
Aaron S. Allen (2012 Fellow) is director of the Environment & Sustainability Program at UNC Greensboro, where he is also associate professor of musicology. His scholarship focuses on the relationships between music cultures and planetary pressures. Aaron has co-edited two ecomusicology collections: Current Directions in Ecomusicology: Music, Culture, Nature (Routledge 2016, recipient of the 2018 Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology) and Sounds, Ecologies, Musics (Oxford 2023). He earned a Ph.D. from Harvard with a dissertation on the nineteenth-century Italian reception of Beethoven. Aaron’s BA in music and BS in ecological studies are from Tulane.