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Music and the Environment in Dystopian Narrative

Sounding the Disaster

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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

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Pubblicato
2018
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Titolo
Music and the Environment in Dystopian Narrative
Sottotitolo
Sounding the Disaster
Lingua
Inglese
Pubblicato
2018
Formato
Copertina rigida
Pagine
100
ISBN10
3030018148
ISBN13
9783030018146
Serie
Descrizione
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.