Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Research Interests
Michael Silvers is an ethnomusicologist and a specialist in Brazilian music and environmental crisis. His research interests also include sound studies, the cultural and environmental history of music technologies, and music, gender, and sexuality.
Education/Academic qualification
Ethnomusicology, Ph.D., UCLA
Award Date: Jun 1 2012
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Research output
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Ethnomusicology as Ecomusicology
Silvers, M. B., 2021, In: Society for Ethnomusicology Newsletter. 55, 1, p. 18-20Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Attending to the Nightingale: On a Multispecies Ethnomusicology
Silvers, M. B., Jun 2020, In: Ethnomusicology. 64, 2, p. 199-224 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Film Review: These C*cksucking Tears
Silvers, M. B., 2019, In: Ethnomusicology. 63, 2, p. 355–356Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
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Voices of Drought: The Politics of Music and Environment in Northeastern Brazil
Silvers, M. B., Oct 2018, Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 212 p.Research output: Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book
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Birdsong and a Song about a Bird: Popular Music and the Mediation of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Northeastern Brazil
Silvers, M. B., Jan 1 2017, Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader. Post, J. C. (ed.). Taylor and Francis, Vol. II. p. 127-140 14 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Activities
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Carnival and the Cost of Drought in Brazil: Neoliberalism and Cultural Policy in Times of Environmental Crisis
Michael B Silvers (Speaker)
Mar 5 2017Activity: Talk types › Invited talk
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Ecomusicology Special Interest Group (External organization)
Michael B Silvers (Chair)
2016 → 2018Activity: Membership types › Membership of committee
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ISAMS Professional Development Colloquium
Michael B Silvers (Participant)
2013Activity: Attendance types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Northeast by Southeast: Brazilian Regional Music
Michael B Silvers (Participant)
2016Activity: Attendance types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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American Council of Learned Societies
Michael B Silvers (Recipient)
2015Activity: Other activity types › Types of Award - Fellowship awarded competitively
Press / Media
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Illinois music professor awarded Carnegie Fellowship
4/24/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
Honors & Recognition
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Honorable Mention, Faculty Prize for Research in the Humanities
Silvers, Michael B (Recipient), 2016
Prize