Overview
- Appeals to scholars working in literature, musicology, media studies, and environmental humanities
- Considers music as environmental art within a narrative context
- Draws on theories of intermediality and textual performativity
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature (PASTMULI)
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About this book
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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Heidi Hart teaches German and culture courses at Utah State University, USA. She is also a Pushcart Prize-winning poet and singer.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Music and the Environment in Dystopian Narrative
Book Subtitle: Sounding the Disaster
Authors: Heidi Hart
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01815-3
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-01814-6Published: 12 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-01815-3Published: 31 October 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-5133
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5141
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 100
Topics: Contemporary Literature, North American Literature, Music