{"product_id":"9783030018146","title":"Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature: Sounding the Disaster","description":"\u003ch1\u003ePalgrave Studies in Music and Literature: Sounding the Disaster\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eHart, Heidi\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMusic and the Environment in Dystopian Narrative: Sounding the Disaster\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003emove\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Joan\u003c\/i\u003e, songless speech in the opera \u003ci\u003ePersephone in the Late Anthropocene\u003c\/i\u003e, interrupted lyricism in the eco-documentary \u003ci\u003eExpedition to the End of the World\u003c\/i\u003e, and dread-inducing hurricane music in the Brecht-Weill opera \u003ci\u003eRise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. \u003c\/i\u003eIn all of these works, music allows for a state of critical vulnerability in its hearers, communicating planetary crisis in an embodied way. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Pivot\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2018-11-12\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783030018146\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-030-01815-3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 100\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47521162264716,"sku":"9783030018146","price":58.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783030018146.jpg?v=1776008818","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783030018146","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}