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rowan.hawitt@ed.ac.uk
Rowan Bayliss Hawitt is a PhD student in the Reid School of Music, University of Edinburgh. Her current research brings together ethnomusicology, environmental humanities, and critical time studies to explore how contemporary folk music practices in Scotland and England refract changing understandings of time occasioned by the climate crisis. Rowan’s work can be found in Ethnomusicology Forum, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, and IASPM Journal. She is also a saxophonist, cellist, and singer who has performed globally, with a particular love for improvisation, Renaissance polyphony, and all types of folk and traditional music.
RCC Research Project: Sounding the Climate Crisis: Time and the More-than-Human in Contemporary Folk Music in Scotland and England
Selected Publications:
- “Musical Ecologies of Grief: Breathing and Environmental Justice in Love Ssega’s ‘Our World (Fight for Air)’”. IASPM Journal 12, no. 1 (2022): 27–42. https://doi.org/10.5429/2079-3871(2022)v12i1.3en.
- with Michelle Bastian. “Multi-Species, Ecological and Climate Change Temporalities: Opening a Dialogue with Phenology.” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 6, no. 2 (2022): 1074–97. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486221111784.
- “Tobar an Dualchais/Kist O Riches. 2010 Onwards. Audio Archive and Educational Resource. Project Director, Flòraidh Forrest. Free Online Access (www.tobarandualchais.co.uk).” Ethnomusicology Forum 31, no. 2 (2022): 317–9. https://doi.org/10.1080/17411912.2021.2011367.
- “Mark Pedelty. A Song to Save the Salish Sea: Musical Performance as Environmental Activism.” H-Celebration (October 2021). https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55648.
- “‘It’s a Part of Me and I’m a Part of It’: Ecological Thinking in Contemporary Scottish Folk Music”. Ethnomusicology Forum 29, no. 3 (2020): 333–55. https://doi.org/10.1080/17411912.2021.1897950.