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Music and the Environment in Dystopian Narrative: Sounding the Disaster investigates the active role of music in film and fiction portraying climate crisis. From contemporary science fiction and environmental film to “Anthropocene opera,” the most arresting eco-narratives draw less on background music than on the power of sound to move fictional action and those who receive it. Beginning with a reflection on a Mozart recording on the 1970s’ Voyager Golden Record, this book explores links between music and violence in Lidia Yuknavitch’s 2017 novel The Book of Joan , songless speech in the opera Persephone in the Late Anthropocene , interrupted lyricism in the eco-documentary Expedition to the End of the World , and dread-inducing hurricane music in the Brecht-Weill opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. In all of these works, music allows for a state of critical vulnerability in its hearers, communicating planetary crisis in an embodied way.
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Music and the Environment in Dystopian Narrative, Heidi Hart
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2018
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- Titel
- Music and the Environment in Dystopian Narrative
- Untertitel
- Sounding the Disaster
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Heidi Hart
- Verlag
- Palgrave Pivot
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2018
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Seitenzahl
- 100
- ISBN10
- 3030018148
- ISBN13
- 9783030018146
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Kunst & Kultur, Sozialwissenschaften, Literaturwissenschaft
- Beschreibung
- Music and the Environment in Dystopian Narrative: Sounding the Disaster investigates the active role of music in film and fiction portraying climate crisis. From contemporary science fiction and environmental film to “Anthropocene opera,” the most arresting eco-narratives draw less on background music than on the power of sound to move fictional action and those who receive it. Beginning with a reflection on a Mozart recording on the 1970s’ Voyager Golden Record, this book explores links between music and violence in Lidia Yuknavitch’s 2017 novel The Book of Joan , songless speech in the opera Persephone in the Late Anthropocene , interrupted lyricism in the eco-documentary Expedition to the End of the World , and dread-inducing hurricane music in the Brecht-Weill opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. In all of these works, music allows for a state of critical vulnerability in its hearers, communicating planetary crisis in an embodied way.