Hart Music and the Environment in Dystopian Narrative

Sounding the Disaster
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-030-01815-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hart, Heidi

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Mozart in Space: A Love Story.- 3. Apocalyptic Body Song:
The Book of Joan
.- 4. Fossil Opera:
Persephone in the Late Anthropocene
.- 5. Mozart on Ice:
Expedition to the End of the World
.- 6. Sounding the Hurricane:
Mahagonny
.- 7. Conclusion: Topical and Indigenous Perspectives.

Über Autor(innen)

Heidi Hart
teaches German and culture courses at Utah State University, USA. She is also a Pushcart Prize-winning poet and singer.