ABSTRACT
Music provides unique ways to think about and act to address the ecological crises, and to teach and learn sustainable living. There are opportunities because of connections between the soundscape and musicking, and the people musicking for ecological activism, when music educators do not overlook these musics. To begin with, the current philosophy of music education on soil helps music educators see and address a number of social movements centering on the invitation to live and music sustainability, such as indigenous ecological justice, and slowing climate change, waste, and species collapse. Music education on soil respects the virtues of soil, such as diversity, longevity, place, patience, nature, intergenerational living, and love. The musics of non-Western cultures, whose music can embed alternative ways of thinking about people and the environment, also cultivate ecological literacy.
