SoundDecisions - Musical Listening, Decision Making, And Equitable Development In The Mekong Delta

音乐是有效决策的卓越中介。以越南南部的湄公河三角洲为例，SoundDecisions采用跨学科的方法和混合的方法来证明音乐表演使农民和其他工人能够倾听他们周围的环境，并通过创新的解决方案来思考当前的环境和经济挑战。居住在湄公河三角洲的土著高棉人和越南定居者都面临着盐碱化加剧、淡水径流减少和侵入式采砂带来的气候变化灾难。他们一起用即兴音乐来塑造他们对农业、贸易和其他经济活动的看法。此外，通过全球电信系统与海外音乐家联系，他们共同策划动态形式的音乐聆听和思考，以建立信任，试验环境问题的新解决方案，并培养选择。这些音乐家重塑了该地区的发展；然而，由于发展来自文化基础而不是经济基础，越南政府和经济学家迄今尚未承认他们的工作。音乐家在该地区丰富的自然和文化资源的交汇处形成的文化变革如何推动新的社会经济发展？考虑到气候变化的现实，他们的基层尝试建立新的共存方法，可能会产生哪些新的可持续性形式？这是同类项目中的第一个，“声音决策”承担了横跨三大洲的档案、人种学和计量经济学研究的重大项目，以回答这些问题。《声音决策》为经济学家了解音乐在缓解气候变化和改善经济生计方面的作用提供了新的方法，也为民族音乐学家提供了使用计量经济学方法来扩大他们评估音乐在世界上地位的能力。

Music is the mediator par excellence of effective decision-making. Using the Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam as a case study,SoundDecisions applies an interdisciplinary approach and mixed methodologies to prove the bold claim that music performanceenables farmers and other workers to listen to their surroundings and think through innovative solutions to immediateenvironmental and economic challenges. Both Indigenous Khmer Krom and settler Vietnamese who inhabit the Mekong Delta faceclimate change catastrophe from increased salinisation, reduced freshwater runoff, and intrusive sand mining. Together, they useimprovised music to shape how they think about farming, trade, and other economic activities. Furthermore, by connecting withdiasporic musicians via global telecommunication systems, they co-curate dynamic forms of musical listening and thinking to buildtrust, experiment with new solutions to environmental issues, and cultivate choice. These musicians reshape development of theregion; and yet, since development emerges from a cultural basis rather than an economic one, the Vietnamese state and economistshave not so far recognised their work. How do cultural changes forged by musicians at the intersection of the region's rich natural andcultural resources enable new socio-economic development? What new forms of sustainability might arise from their grassrootsattempts to establish new methods of co-existence given climate change realities? The first project of its kind, SoundDecisionsundertakes a major programme of archival, ethnographic, and econometric research across three continents to answer thesequestions. SoundDecisions offers new methodologies for economists to understand the role of music in mitigating climate changeand improving economic livelihood, and for ethnomusicologists to use econometric methods to expand their ability to evaluatemusic's place in the world.