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Mark Pedelty is an associate professor of Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota He is the author of War Stories The Culture of Foreign Correspondents 1995 Musical Ritual in Mexico City From the Aztec to NAFTA 2004 and Ecomusicology Rock Folk and the Environment 2012 Dr Pedelty is currently conducting applied research concerning music as environmental communication. A song to save the salish seaweed gif On the coast of Washington and British Columbia sit the misty forests and towering mountains of Cascadia With archipelagos surrounding its shores and tidal surges of the Salish Sea trundling through the interior this bioregion has long attracted loggers fishing fleets and land developers each generation seeking successively harder to reach resources as old growth stands salmon stocks and other natural endowments are depleted Alongside encroaching developers and industrialists is the presence of a rich environmental movement that has historically built community through musical activism From the Wobblies Little Red Songbook 1909 to Woody Guthrie s Columbia River Songs 1941 on through to the Raging Grannies formation in 1987 Cascadia s ecology has inspired legions of songwriters and musicians to advocate for preservation through music In this book Mark Pedelty explores Cascadia s vibrant eco musical community in order to understand how environmentalist music imagines and perhaps even creates a sustainable conception of place Highlighting the music and environmental work of such various groups as Dana Lyons the Raging Grannies Idle No More Towers and Trees and Irthlingz among others Pedelty examines the divergent strategies musical organizational and technological used by each musical group to reach different audiences and to mobilize action He concludes with a discussion of applied ecomusicology considering ways this book might be of use to activists and musicians at the community level A Song to Save the Salish Sea Musical Performance as Environmental Activism.