How Fiction Represents Recordings: Towards a Political Ecology of Sound Technology in U.S. Novels Since 2000

对文献中声音技术的研究虽然越来越多，但尚未评估录制的音乐对环境造成的破坏后果。我的项目将考察当代美国作家，他们表达了对唱片音乐最终衰落的焦虑，包括理查德·鲍尔斯、保罗·比蒂和詹妮弗·伊根。我会争辩说，他们的工作涉及唱片音乐令人不安的制造、碳足迹和难以处理的问题：即所谓的政治生态。我认为，通过口头表达调解的倾听体验，他们的写作揭示了录音的恐怖和奇迹，而这些方式还没有被探索过。

Studies of sound technology in literature, though increasing in number, are yet to take stock of recorded music's damaging environmental consequences. My project will examine contemporary U.S. authors who articulate anxieties about recorded music's eventual decay, including Richard Powers, Paul Beatty and Jennifer Egan. I will argue that their work engages with recorded music's troubling manufacture, carbon footprint and difficult disposal: what is known as its political ecology. I contend that by representing mediated listening experience verbally, their writing reveals the terror and wonder of recordings in ways that have not been explored.