{"product_id":"music-and-the-environment-in-heidi-hart-9783030018146","title":"Music and the Environment in Dystopian Narrative: Sounding the Disaster","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Heidi Hart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3030018148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783030018146\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave Pivot\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/12\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.31d","brand":"Heidi Hart","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48089036292351,"sku":"9783030018146","price":64.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8b640d55-23cb-4de7-bed9-0f925f43376f.jpg?v=1769107863","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/music-and-the-environment-in-heidi-hart-9783030018146","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}