TY - JOUR

T1 - Music and sustainability

T2 - organizational cultures towards creative resilience – A review

AU - Kagan, Sacha

AU - Kirchberg, Volker

PY - 2016/11/1

Y1 - 2016/11/1

N2 - While the potential of creativity and of the arts for societal transformation towards sustainability has gained attention over recent years, a specific focus on music is lacking in sustainability science. What are the specific potentials of music, and why should we care? Collective musical practice enhances group cohesion, and musical improvisation trains social creativity, both of which are important resources for organizational resilience. Turning to the experience of music on the individual level, cultures of sustainability can be fostered through a musical aesthetics of complexity that opens up to the ambiguities, ambivalences, contradictions and creatively chaotic dimensions of a transformation towards sustainability. However, music is a “double-edged sword” and its emotional power can be deployed instead to strengthen prejudice, simplify worldviews, and restrain creativity. This paper offers the first broad transdisciplinary review of research at the intersection of music and sustainability. It exposes the mechanisms operating at this intersection and highlights key areas where the social experience and practice of music can contribute to the cultural dimension of sustainability in communities, organizations and society.

AB - While the potential of creativity and of the arts for societal transformation towards sustainability has gained attention over recent years, a specific focus on music is lacking in sustainability science. What are the specific potentials of music, and why should we care? Collective musical practice enhances group cohesion, and musical improvisation trains social creativity, both of which are important resources for organizational resilience. Turning to the experience of music on the individual level, cultures of sustainability can be fostered through a musical aesthetics of complexity that opens up to the ambiguities, ambivalences, contradictions and creatively chaotic dimensions of a transformation towards sustainability. However, music is a “double-edged sword” and its emotional power can be deployed instead to strengthen prejudice, simplify worldviews, and restrain creativity. This paper offers the first broad transdisciplinary review of research at the intersection of music and sustainability. It exposes the mechanisms operating at this intersection and highlights key areas where the social experience and practice of music can contribute to the cultural dimension of sustainability in communities, organizations and society.

KW - Music education

KW - Sustainability

KW - musical aesthetics

KW - Transdisciplinary studies

KW - Societal transformations

KW - social creativity

KW - Cultural Distribution/Cultural Organization

KW - social creativity

KW - organizational resilience

KW - Science of art

KW - Sustainability Science

KW - Music

KW - Musik

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84971631224&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.05.044

DO - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.05.044

M3 - Scientific review articles

VL - 135

SP - 1487

EP - 1502

JO - Journal of Cleaner Production

JF - Journal of Cleaner Production

SN - 0959-6526

ER -