Music and the Environment in Dystopian Narrative : Sounding the Disaster / by Heidi Hart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hart, Heidi., Author.

Series:

Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature, 2946-5141

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--20th century.

Literature, Modern.

Literature, Modern--21st century.

America--Literatures.

America.

Music.

Contemporary Literature.

North American Literature.

Local Subjects:

Contemporary Literature.

North American Literature.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 100 pages).

Edition:

1st ed. 2018.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.

Summary:

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. .

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

9783030018153

3030018156