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

文献中对声音技术的研究虽然数量不断增加，但尚未评估录制的音乐对环境的破坏性后果。我的项目将研究当代美国作家，他们表达了对录制音乐最终衰落的焦虑，包括理查德·鲍尔斯（Richard Powers）、保罗·比蒂（Paul Beatty）和詹妮弗·伊根（Jennifer Egan）。我认为他们的作品涉及录制音乐令人不安的制造、碳足迹和困难的处置：即所谓的政治生态。我认为，通过口头表达介导的聆听体验，他们的写作以从未被探索过的方式揭示了录音的恐怖和奇妙。

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.