Sounds of the Future

Mathew J. Bartkowiak is a former associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Marshfield/Wood County. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of American Studies at Michigan State University.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Introduction      —Mathew J. BartkowiakPART I. “OPEN THE POD DOOR, HAL”: A SURVEY OF MUSIC’S ROLE IN SCIENCE FICTION FILM1. A Familiar Sound in a New Place: The Use of the Musical Score Within the Science Fiction Film      —Cara Marisa Deleon2. A Popular Avant-Garde: The Paradoxical Tradition of Electronic and Atonal Sounds in Sci-Fi Music Scoring      —Lisa M. SchmidtPART II. “GIVE MY REGARDS TO THE BARYCENTER”: BROADWAY’S RELATION TO SCIENCE FICTION FILM3. “Hello WALL-E!”: Nostalgia, Utopia, and the Science Fiction Musical      —Kathryn A.T. Edney and Kit Hughes4. Just Imagine: The Musical Effacement of Dystopia in an Early Sound Film      —Katherine SpringPART III. BECOMING THE STAR-CHILD: MUSIC AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF SUBJECTIVITY5. Ambient Reverberations: Diegetic Music, Science Fiction, and Otherness      —Seth Mulliken6. Sci-Fi Film and Sounds of the Future      —Matthias KonzettPART IV. MOON/SPOON/CROON: SCIENCE FICTION AND POPULAR MUSIC7. “It’s Hip to Be Square”: Rock and Roll and the Future      —Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper8. The Intergalactic Lounge: Barbarella and Hearing the Future      —Mathew J. Bartkowiak9. Proposing an Alter-Destiny: Science Fiction in the Art and Music of Sun Ra      —Jerome J. LangguthPART V. “ALL THOSE MOMENTS”: INSTANCES THAT SHAPED OUR AUDITORY FUTURE10. Suspended Motion in the Title Scene from The Day the Earth Stood Still      —Stephen Husarik11. Strauss, Kubrick and Nietzsche: Recurrence and Reactivity in the Dance of Becoming That Is 2001: A Space Odyssey      —Gregg RednerPART VI. “SETTING THE CONTROLS FOR THE HEART OF THE SUN”: COMPOSERS AND COMPOSITIONS IN SCIENCE FICTION FILM12. Rocketship X-M: The Sounds of a Martian Breeze      —John C. Tibbetts13. Seeing Beyond His Own Time: The Sounds of Jerry Goldsmith      —Cynthia J. MillerAbout the Contributors      Index

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