Jeff Titon
@jefftoddtiton.bsky.social
Professor of Music Emeritus, Brown University. Ecomusicology, ethnomusicology, folklore. New book: Sounds, Ecologies, Musics (Oxford U Press 2023). Old book: Toward a Sound Ecology (Indiana U Press 2020). Essays at https://brown.academia.edu/JeffToddTiton
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Jeff Titon
@jefftoddtiton.bsky.social
· Dec 22
My current project is a "sound ecology" based in an ecological rationality. Sound vibrations connect living creatures and establish an interdependent co-presence that signals a universal kinship, which forms the basis for a universal co-responsibility.
Is it still there? #130 in a series. Kitchen of the genre painter and fiddler William Sidney Mount (1807-1868), Stony Brook, Long Island, New York, ca. 1842. Note the beehive oven, the hunting rifle, and the fiddle and bow, along with the cooking equipment in the fireplace. Likely a sketch by Mount.
November 30, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Is it still there? #130 in a series. Kitchen of the genre painter and fiddler William Sidney Mount (1807-1868), Stony Brook, Long Island, New York, ca. 1842. Note the beehive oven, the hunting rifle, and the fiddle and bow, along with the cooking equipment in the fireplace. Likely a sketch by Mount.
Is it still there? #129 in a series. The Electric Beach Tanning Salon, Providence, Rhode Island, 2009. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentaryphotography
November 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Is it still there? #129 in a series. The Electric Beach Tanning Salon, Providence, Rhode Island, 2009. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentaryphotography
Is it still there? #128 in a series. Marquis Building (1896), Staunton, Virginia, 1988. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentaryphotography #sustainability #historicalpreservation
November 1, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Is it still there? #128 in a series. Marquis Building (1896), Staunton, Virginia, 1988. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentaryphotography #sustainability #historicalpreservation
Is it still there? #127 in a series. Exhibit for sustainable homes, Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association Common Ground Fair, September, 2008. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #sustainability
October 30, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Is it still there? #127 in a series. Exhibit for sustainable homes, Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association Common Ground Fair, September, 2008. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #sustainability
Is it still there? #126 in a series. Cemetery with figures, southwestern Virginia, 1992. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentary
October 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Is it still there? #126 in a series. Cemetery with figures, southwestern Virginia, 1992. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentary
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Johnny Shines & Luther Johnson - The Blue Horizon
youtu.be/tK5iQBy9DRM?...
From his 1973 album
Chicago Blues Festival 1972
Recorded 1972 France
youtu.be/tK5iQBy9DRM?...
From his 1973 album
Chicago Blues Festival 1972
Recorded 1972 France
The Blue Horizon
YouTube video by Johnny Shines - Topic
youtu.be
September 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Johnny Shines & Luther Johnson - The Blue Horizon
youtu.be/tK5iQBy9DRM?...
From his 1973 album
Chicago Blues Festival 1972
Recorded 1972 France
youtu.be/tK5iQBy9DRM?...
From his 1973 album
Chicago Blues Festival 1972
Recorded 1972 France
Is it still there? #125 in a series. Gravestone with urn icon and inscription, Rockport, Maine, 2011. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentary #Maine
September 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Is it still there? #125 in a series. Gravestone with urn icon and inscription, Rockport, Maine, 2011. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentary #Maine
Is it still there? #124 in a series. Peace Studies bulletin board at the University of Maine, Orono, 2008. Photo by Jeff Titon.
September 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Is it still there? #124 in a series. Peace Studies bulletin board at the University of Maine, Orono, 2008. Photo by Jeff Titon.
Is it still there? #123 in a series. Abandoned house, somewhere in Louisiana, near the Arkansas border, August, 1970. Photo by Jeff Titon.
August 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Is it still there? #123 in a series. Abandoned house, somewhere in Louisiana, near the Arkansas border, August, 1970. Photo by Jeff Titon.
Is it still there? #122 in a series. Defeated Creek Old Regular Baptist Church, Letcher County, Kentucky, June 1993. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentary #Appalachia
August 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Is it still there? #122 in a series. Defeated Creek Old Regular Baptist Church, Letcher County, Kentucky, June 1993. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentary #Appalachia
Is it still there? #121 in a series. Roadside cresh, Fort Kent, Maine, 1988. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentary #Maine
July 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Is it still there? #121 in a series. Roadside cresh, Fort Kent, Maine, 1988. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentary #Maine
Is it still there? #120 in a series. Abandoned hornets' nest, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2014. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentary
July 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Is it still there? #120 in a series. Abandoned hornets' nest, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2014. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentary
Is it still there? #119 in a series. House (formerly a church) with blue shutters, flowering plants, and antennae, Patten, Maine, 1988. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentary #Maine
July 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Is it still there? #119 in a series. House (formerly a church) with blue shutters, flowering plants, and antennae, Patten, Maine, 1988. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentary #Maine
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Our public radio and TV stations would be very hard hit by budget cuts slated for NPR, PBS, and community radio, unless our Senators in Congress vote to restore those funds in the rescission bill, now. Time is very short. I've contacted my Senators. Will you contact yours?
July 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Our public radio and TV stations would be very hard hit by budget cuts slated for NPR, PBS, and community radio, unless our Senators in Congress vote to restore those funds in the rescission bill, now. Time is very short. I've contacted my Senators. Will you contact yours?
Is it still there? #118 in a series. Hutto Feed and Supply, Damascus, Arkansas, 1970. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentary
July 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Is it still there? #118 in a series. Hutto Feed and Supply, Damascus, Arkansas, 1970. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentary
Is it still there? #117 in a series. Gravestone, Dennard Community Church, Dennard, Arkansas, August, 1970. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentary #gravestones
July 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Is it still there? #117 in a series. Gravestone, Dennard Community Church, Dennard, Arkansas, August, 1970. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentary #gravestones
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Arkansas blues musician "Forrest City Joe" (Joe Pugh) born July 10, 1926 at Hughes, Arkansas.
Joe recorded for Aristocrat and Atlantic Records.
Worked w/ Big Joe Turner, Otis Spann, Willie Cobbs.
Died in automobile accident near Horseshoe Lake, Ark. (1960)
youtu.be/S4APlf-EsVw
Joe recorded for Aristocrat and Atlantic Records.
Worked w/ Big Joe Turner, Otis Spann, Willie Cobbs.
Died in automobile accident near Horseshoe Lake, Ark. (1960)
youtu.be/S4APlf-EsVw
Forrest City Joe-Lonesome Day Blues
YouTube video by Traveler Into The Blue
youtu.be
July 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Arkansas blues musician "Forrest City Joe" (Joe Pugh) born July 10, 1926 at Hughes, Arkansas.
Joe recorded for Aristocrat and Atlantic Records.
Worked w/ Big Joe Turner, Otis Spann, Willie Cobbs.
Died in automobile accident near Horseshoe Lake, Ark. (1960)
youtu.be/S4APlf-EsVw
Joe recorded for Aristocrat and Atlantic Records.
Worked w/ Big Joe Turner, Otis Spann, Willie Cobbs.
Died in automobile accident near Horseshoe Lake, Ark. (1960)
youtu.be/S4APlf-EsVw
Is it still there? #116 in a series. Boardwalk, Sydney, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, 2015. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentary #Canada
July 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Is it still there? #116 in a series. Boardwalk, Sydney, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, 2015. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentary #Canada
Is it still there? #115 in a series. Goodyear Blimp flying over Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1971. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentary
July 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Is it still there? #115 in a series. Goodyear Blimp flying over Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1971. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentary
Is it still there? #114 in a series. Paper mill at Howland, Maine, 1926. Photo by Bert Lincoln Call. #photography #documentary #Maine
June 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Is it still there? #114 in a series. Paper mill at Howland, Maine, 1926. Photo by Bert Lincoln Call. #photography #documentary #Maine
Is it still there? #113 in a series. Abandoned tenant farm house with political sign, Osceola, Arkansas, August, 1970. Hayes McClerkin, speaker of the Arkansas House at the time, was unsuccessful in his bid for the governorship. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentary #politics
June 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Is it still there? #113 in a series. Abandoned tenant farm house with political sign, Osceola, Arkansas, August, 1970. Hayes McClerkin, speaker of the Arkansas House at the time, was unsuccessful in his bid for the governorship. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentary #politics
Is it still there? #112 in a series. Little Dove Old Regular Baptist Church, Sassafras, Knott County, Kentucky, 1990. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentary
June 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Is it still there? #112 in a series. Little Dove Old Regular Baptist Church, Sassafras, Knott County, Kentucky, 1990. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentary
Is it still there? #111 in a series. Schwarzschilds, Staunton, Virginia, March, 1988. Photo by Jeff Titon.
June 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Is it still there? #111 in a series. Schwarzschilds, Staunton, Virginia, March, 1988. Photo by Jeff Titon.
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