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The Human-Animal Relationship and the Musical Metaphor in The Great Animal Orchestra by Bernie Krause

Emiliano Battistini

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Human animalPresentationPoliticsHistoryAestheticsMetaphormedia_common.quotation_subjectSymphonyActive listeningMusicalExposition (music)media_common

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Taking as case study the discourse of The Great Animal Orchestra, the following paper presents the sociosemiotic analysis carried out on the work by Bernie Krause, focusing especially on the analysis of the CD The Great Animal Orchestra Symphony, of the exposition Le Grand Orchestre des Animaux and of the related Internet sites, which followed his first wider public presentation The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World’s Wild Places. Through the musical metaphor, Krause’s discourse calls again into question the human-animal relationship, reversing the common meanings – this discovered animal culture stands opposite to contemporary human barbarity – and approaching multi-naturalistic positions, proposing a new politics of nature. This became possible because he changed his point of view on animals listening to them, generating a new approach to the relationship human-animals as well as showing new characteristics of the animals themselves.

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2018-01-01
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72992-3_15