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: Psychology and Our Planet

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.