Sounds of the Future

Contents

• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments     
• Introduction     
• —Mathew J. Bartkowiak
• PART I. “OPEN THE POD DOOR, HAL”: A SURVEY OF MUSIC’S ROLE IN SCIENCE FICTION FILM
• 1. A Familiar Sound in a New Place: The Use of the Musical Score Within the Science Fiction Film     
• —Cara Marisa Deleon
• 2. A Popular Avant-Garde: The Paradoxical Tradition of Electronic and Atonal Sounds in Sci-Fi Music Scoring     
• —Lisa M. Schmidt
• PART II. “GIVE MY REGARDS TO THE BARYCENTER”: BROADWAY’S RELATION TO SCIENCE FICTION FILM
• 3. “Hello WALL-E!”: Nostalgia, Utopia, and the Science Fiction Musical     
• —Kathryn A.T. Edney and Kit Hughes
• 4. Just Imagine: The Musical Effacement of Dystopia in an Early Sound Film     
• —Katherine Spring
• PART III. BECOMING THE STAR-CHILD: MUSIC AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF SUBJECTIVITY
• 5. Ambient Reverberations: Diegetic Music, Science Fiction, and Otherness     
• —Seth Mulliken
• 6. Sci-Fi Film and Sounds of the Future     
• —Matthias Konzett
• PART IV. MOON/SPOON/CROON: SCIENCE FICTION AND POPULAR MUSIC
• 7. “It’s Hip to Be Square”: Rock and Roll and the Future     
• —Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper
• 8. The Intergalactic Lounge: Barbarella and Hearing the Future     
• —Mathew J. Bartkowiak
• 9. Proposing an Alter-Destiny: Science Fiction in the Art and Music of Sun Ra     
• —Jerome J. Langguth
• PART V. “ALL THOSE MOMENTS”: INSTANCES THAT SHAPED OUR AUDITORY FUTURE
• 10. Suspended Motion in the Title Scene from The Day the Earth Stood Still     
• —Stephen Husarik
• 11. Strauss, Kubrick and Nietzsche: Recurrence and Reactivity in the Dance of Becoming That Is 2001: A Space Odyssey     
• —Gregg Redner
• PART VI. “SETTING THE CONTROLS FOR THE HEART OF THE SUN”: COMPOSERS AND COMPOSITIONS IN SCIENCE FICTION FILM
• 12. Rocketship X-M: The Sounds of a Martian Breeze     
• —John C. Tibbetts
• 13. Seeing Beyond His Own Time: The Sounds of Jerry Goldsmith     
• —Cynthia J. Miller
• About the Contributors     
• Index