Music and the Environment in Dystopian Narrative: Sounding the Disasterinvestigates 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 tomovefictional 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 novelThe Book of Joan, songless speech in the operaPersephone in the Late Anthropocene, interrupted lyricism in the eco-documentaryExpedition to the End of the World, and dread-inducing hurricane music in the Brecht-Weill operaRise 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. | Music And The Environment In Dystopian Narrative by Heidi Hart, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters