Priya Parrotta
historian & musician
for the earth
Articles
The following list of publications does not include Priya's book, The Politics of Coexistence in the Atlantic World (2016), and completed manuscript, To Dream Again: Island Environmentalism Through Music (currently under review; peer reviews available here.)
Parrotta, Priya. "Coexistence Celebrated: Scholarship, Sound and the Power of Immersive Spaces." Safina Center, 2024.
Parrotta, Priya. "Anima: When Ecosystems Meet Dreams." Safina Center, 2024.
Parrotta, Priya and Lydia Platón Lázaro. "Bomba as Resistance to Femicide in Puerto Rico." In Confronting Femicide. Forthcoming with Palgrave.
Parrotta, Priya. "When the Island Sings: 'Paradise,' Hospitality, and the Transformative Power of Environmental Music." In Hospitable Linguistics: Alternative, Indigenous and Critical Approaches to Language Research and Language Encounters. Bloomsbury, 2024.
Parrotta, Priya. "To Dream Again: Island Soundscapes & Environmentalism." In Globalization and Planetary Ethics: New Terrains of Consciousness. Routledge, 2023.
Parrotta, Priya. "When Oceans Meet: Musical Diversity, Environmentalism and Dialogue in a Changing World." In Musiké 7.1, Conciencias Sonoras: Reflexiones Pos-María desde la música y el arte al Cambio Climático, 2019.
Parrotta, Priya. "Soundwaves: Political and Musical Exchange between Students and Activists in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands." In Musiké 7.1, Conciencias Sonoras: Reflexiones Pos-María desde la música y el arte al Cambio Climático, 2019.
Parrotta, Priya. “Listening to Huracán María.” In Faith Initiative, a print publication dedicated to global, interfaith understanding and peace. 2018.
Priya Parrotta. “From Forests to Music: Perspectives on the Public Sphere.” In Acta Científica 31(1-3). 2018.
Parrotta, Priya. Travel Writings: Listening to Maharashtra and Goa (2017-18). Music & the Earth International, 2022. Available here.
Parrotta, Priya. “Costas: A Tale of Two Cafés” in Dannabang Kuwabong, ed. Mothers and Daughters. Toronto: Demeter Press, 2017.
Parrotta, Priya. “Men Who Doubt Infinity.” In Q.E.D., an Oxford-based publication which reimagines the learning and teaching of mathematics. 2017.
Parrotta, Priya. '"Listening in a Time of Climate Change.” In New Music Box, a publication of New Media USA. 2017.
Parrotta, Priya. “Ecological Wisdom, Living Soundscapes.” In New Music Box, a publication of New Media USA. 2017.
Parrotta, Priya. “Composing Interdependence: Songs Along the Nile.” In New Music Box, a publication of New Media USA. 2017.
Parrotta, Priya. “Music and (Social/Cultural) Resilience.” In New Music Box, a publication of New Media USA. 2017.
Parrotta, Priya. “Music Across Pipelines: Songs from Standing Rock.” In Media Diversified, a platform for critically-informed perspectives on contemporary media. 2017.
Parrotta, Priya. “Om.” In Faith Initiative, a print publication dedicated to global, interfaith understanding and peace. 2017.
Parrotta, Priya. “Supporting Diversity in Times of Hate.” In Art & Soul, the online publication of The Sanctuaries, a multi faith arts community in Washington, DC. 2017.
Parrotta, Priya. “The Humor of Multiculturalism.” In Art & Soul, the online publication of The Sanctuaries, a multi faith arts community in Washington, DC. 2016.
Parrotta, Priya. “Decolonizing Music: A Musical Congress of the Americas.” In Repeating Islands, a website for news and commentary of Caribbean culture, literature and the arts. 2016.
Parrotta, Priya. “A Hindu Puerto Rican’s Reflection on the Emerging Leaders Multifaith Climate Convergence in Rome.” In Repeating Islands, a website for news and commentary of Caribbean culture, literature and the arts. 2015.
Parrotta, Priya. “Cosmopolitanism as creative resistance in San Juan, Puerto Rico.” in Voices Across Borders, a website based at the Oxford Centre for Research in the Humanities. 2015.
Parrotta, Priya. “Cultural heritage in Washington, DC.” In Voices Across Borders, a website based at the Oxford Centre for Research in the Humanities. 2015.
Parrotta, Priya. “Fugas y Fronteras: The Politics of Inclusion in San Mateo de Cangrejos, A Fugitive Settlement of Afro- Caribbean Slaves in Puerto Rico” in Nicholas Faraclas et al, eds. Transcultural Roots Uprising. Amsterdam: 2013.
Parrotta, Priya. Review of Nelson Maldonado Torres, Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity in Sargasso: A Journal of Caribbean Literature, Language, and Culture, 2013.
Parrotta, Priya. "Promised Land: Quilombismo, the ‘Quilombo Clause,’ and the Politics of Recognition in Contemporary Brazil" in Nicholas Faraclas, ed. Anansi’s Defiant Webs. Amsterdam: 2011. Reprinted in the Brown Journal of History, 2012.
Additional writings are available at https://priyaparrotta.wordpress.com.