Michael B Silvers — University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Personal profile

Research Interests

Michael Silvers is an ethnomusicologist and a specialist in Brazilian music and ecomusicology (the study of music and the environment). His research interests also include sound studies, music and technology, cultural sustainability, and music, gender, and sexuality.

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Music Arts & Humanities

Brazil Arts & Humanities

Song Arts & Humanities

Popular music Arts & Humanities

Birds Arts & Humanities

Mediation Arts & Humanities

Birdsong Arts & Humanities

Drought Arts & Humanities

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Research Output 2007 2020

14 Paper
4 Chapter
4 Article
4 Book/Film/Article review
3 More

Voices of Drought: The Politics of Music and Environment in Northeastern Brazil

Silvers, M. B., Oct 16 2018, Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Research output: Book/Report › Book

Music

Brazil

Drought

Wax

Austerity

Attending to the Nightingale: On a Multispecies Ethnomusicology

Silvers, M. B., 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : Ethnomusicology.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Birdsong and a song about a bird: Popular music and the mediation of traditional ecological knowledge in Northeastern Brazil

Silvers, M. B., Sep 1 2015, In : Ethnomusicology. 59, 3, p. 380-397 18 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

song

mediation

music

Brazil

prophecy

On Cultural and Environmental Sustainability: Rabecas, Pífanos, and the Materials of Musical Instruments in Cariri

Silvers, M. B., 2016, Experiências de Pesquisa em Música no Cariri Cearense. Mattos, M. (ed.). Juazeiro do Norte: Universidade Federal do Ceará Press, p. 97-106

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter