Research Output per year
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
Research Output 2007 2020
Attending to the Nightingale: On a Multispecies Ethnomusicology
Silvers, M. B., 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : Ethnomusicology.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Film Review: These C*cksucking Tears
Silvers, M. B., 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : Ethnomusicology.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
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
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, Volume II. Taylor and Francis, p. 127-140 14 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Birdsong
Brazil
Mediation
Popular music
Song
Bird Song and Song about a Bird: Popular Music and the Mediation of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Northeastern Brazil
Silvers, M. B., 2017, Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader. Post, J. C. (ed.). Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, Vol. 2.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Activities 2008 2017
Ecomusicologia e a Música Pós-Humana
Michael B Silvers (Speaker)Jun 18 2015
Activity: Talk types › Invited talk
Ecomusicology Newsletter (Journal)
Michael B Silvers (Editor)2012
Activity: Editorial work types › Publication peer-review
Sustainable Resources, Local Meaning, Labor, and Global Trade
Michael B Silvers (Speaker)Oct 26 2016
Activity: Talk types › Invited talk
Ethnomusicology Review (External organization)
Michael B Silvers (Member)2013 → …
Activity: Membership types › Membership of board
Unit for Criticism Junior Fellow
Michael B Silvers (Recipient)2015 → 2017
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Award - Fellowship awarded competitively
Honors & Recognition
Honorable Mention, Faculty Prize for Research in the Humanities
Michael B Silvers (Recipient), 2016
Prize