ABSTRACT

In recent years, Scottish folk musicians have increasingly referenced and incorporated Scottish topography, place and wildlife within their music, often positioning humans as inseparable from a wider natural-cultural ecosystem. This ‘ecological thinking’ both reflects and shapes issues of locality and place in Scottish music; tropes of (Scottish) folk music as ‘close to nature’ are variously demarcated or blurred in such thinking. In addition, these folk musicians use their music to present a critical perspective on explicitly environmental and political issues, addressing in particular the historical and current relationships between ‘humans’ and ‘nature’. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with musicians and musical analysis, this article explores how two case study albums negotiate place, mythology and embedded human-nonhuman dyads with reference to the natural world. I argue that an ethics of solidarity and care underpins these musicians’ output, exploring how music can enable a reflexive and often contradictory form of ecological thinking.

摘要

近年来，苏格兰民间音乐家越来越多地在其音乐中引用和结合苏格兰的地形，地方和野生动植物，常常使人类与更广泛的自然文化生态系统密不可分。这种“生态思维”既反映并塑造了苏格兰音乐中的地方性和地方性问题。在这种思维方式中，（苏格兰）民间音乐的“接近自然”的比喻被不同地划分或模糊了。此外，这些民间音乐家利用他们的音乐提出了对明确的环境和政治问题的批判性观点，特别是解决了“人类”与“自然”之间的历史和当前关系。借助对音乐家的半结构化访谈和音乐分析，本文探讨了两个案例研究专辑如何协商地点，神话和涉及自然世界的内嵌式人非人双体。我认为，团结和关怀的道德规范是这些音乐家的输出的基础，探讨了音乐如何使生态思维具有反思性且经常相互矛盾的形式。