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Music and the Environment in Dystopian Narrativeinvestigates 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. Chapter 1 Introduction1.1 Sounding the Anthropocene1.2 A Critical-performative approach1.3 From Space Opera to Mahagonny1.4 Conclusion2. Chapter 2 Mozart in Space: A Love Story2.1 Voice in the Machine2.2 Messenger, Trace, Story2.3 Mozart on the Bus2.4 Conclusion3. Chapter 3 Apocalyptic Body Song: The Book of Joan3.1 Musical Novels3.2 Violence and the Female Voice3.3 Evoking the Earworm3.4 A Sonic Cluster Bomb3.5 Conclusion4. Chapter 4 Fossil Opera: Persephone in the Late Anthropocene4.1 Persephone's "Fall"4.2 Kickstarter Opera4.3 Ruined Words4.4 Conclusion5. Chapter 5 Mozart on Ice: Expedition to the End of the World5.1 Mozart as Montage5.2 Fossil Music5.3 Diegesis and Paratext5.4 Conclusion6. Chapter 6 Sounding the Hurricane: Mahagonny6.1 Trouble in Amerika6.2 Vegas in Berlin6.3 Music As Destroying Angel6.4 Conclusion7. Chapter 7 Conclusion: Topical and Indigenous Perspectives
