![]() ![]() Evidence of atomic bomb testing from 1945 and the resultant "bomb pulse" are present in the varves. Their activities, including farming and logging, resulted in thick varves and more eutrophication. After Indigenous abandonment in the 15th century, varves thinned until the arrival of European colonizers in the 19th century. This farming resulted in thicker sediment layers (called ‘varves’) and lake eutrophication (the excessive growth of algae). The dark organic matter and light calcite layers in the core indicate seasonal changes and human activities, including Indigenous agricultural activities as seen in maize pollen from the late 13th century. The Crawford Lake sediment core records anthropogenic impacts from the 13th to the 21st century. ![]() The Anthropocene Working Group has selected Crawford Lake, Ontario, Canada (which coincidentally looks like a human footprint) as the Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP), often referred to as the ' Golden Spike', for the proposed Anthropocene Epoch, with a suggested starting date of 1950 CE. The Rio+20 conference, which marked the largest gathering in the history of the United Nations, brought together world leaders, policymakers, and representatives from diverse sectors to address pressing global environmental challenges, foster sustainable development, and shape a collective vision for a more balanced, harmonious coexistence with nature. This cinematic exploration delved into the contemporary state of our planet, elucidating the profound impact of human activities on Earth's ecosystems. ![]() What am I, the epoch that bends the planetary tale,ĭefined by human's relentless trail? Welcome to the Anthropocene In June 2012, the United Nations Earth Summit Rio+20 was inaugurated with GLOBAÏA's thought-provoking film, Welcome to the Anthropocene. With footprints wide and fingers long, the Earth itself sings my song. I carve landscapes, rule the air, and hold the fates of creatures rare. I emerge as a new dawn, both feared and embraced, forever drawn.Ī force unseen, I claim dominion, transforming the world with human opinion. ![]() Ultimately, this article demonstrates Anthropocene stakes for early modern music studies and foregrounds the colonial underpinnings and contemporary racial asymmetries of ecological precarity as urgent questions for musicology’s emerging engagement with the Anthropocene.In an age of changing tides, where boundaries wane and life collides, Recognizing how the lethality of colonization shaped the Anthropocene confronts the time of musical history with geological time, centering Anthropocene climate change as a background analytical framework for music seemingly far-removed from familiar ecomusicological themes. Accordingly, I develop Anthropocenic recontextualizations of Purcell’s Indian Queen (1695), eighteenth- and nineteenth-century musical and ethnographic representations of Native American “death songs,” and two practices of Indigenous resurgence via song: psalmody and Ghost Dance ceremonies. The Orbis Spike proposal challenges musicological inquiry into the Anthropocene to be not only ecologically and musicologically sensitive, but also decolonial, antiracist, and critical of global capitalism. In 1610, this reforestation triggered carbon dioxide sequestration and a planetary low point of CO2, a climatic signal that geologists call the “Orbis Spike.” I explore how colonization’s Orbis Spike alters the historiographical horizons for approaching musical and aural documents of the early modern to nineteenth-century Atlantic. Colonial decimation of Indigenous communities in Central and South America led to land abandonment and a reforestation event. This article considers musicological consequences of recent proposals by climate researchers to date the beginning of the Anthropocene-the geological epoch in which human activities define the Earth system-to the period immediately following New World colonization. ![]()
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