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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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Research Output
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 2018, Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 212 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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
Forró Music and the São Francisco River: Singing the Margins of National Integration
Silvers, M. B., 2017.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
Activities
A Naturally Immoral Voice: The Story of Castrato Paulo Abel do Nascimento
Michael B Silvers (Speaker)2016
Activity: Talk types › Invited talk
Carnival and the Cost of Drought in Brazil: Neoliberalism and Cultural Policy in Times of Environmental Crisis
Michael B Silvers (Speaker)Mar 5 2017
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
Unit for Criticism Junior Fellow
Michael B Silvers (Recipient)2015 → 2017
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Award - Fellowship awarded competitively
Press / Media
Illinois music professor awarded Carnegie Fellowship
4/24/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
Honors & Recognition
Honorable Mention, Faculty Prize for Research in the Humanities
Silvers, Michael B (Recipient), 2016
Prize