Music and the Environment in Dystopian Narrative

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<p><i>Music and the Environment in Dystopian Narrative: Sounding the Disaster</i> 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 <i>move</i> 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 <i>The Book of Joan</i>, songless speech in the opera <i>Persephone in the Late Anthropocene</i>, interrupted lyricism in the eco-documentary <i>Expedition to the End of the World</i>, and dread-inducing hurricane music in the Brecht-Weill opera <i>Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. </i>In all of these works, music allows for a state of critical vulnerability in its hearers, communicating planetary crisis in an embodied way. </p><p> </p>

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<p></p><p><b>Heidi Hart</b> teaches German and culture courses at Utah State University, USA. She is also a Pushcart Prize-winning poet and singer.</p><p></p>

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