Sounds of the Future : Essays on Music in Science Fiction Film

SUMARIO. / A familiar sound in a new place : the use of the musical score within the science fiction film ; Cara Marisa Deleon / A popular avant-garde : the paradoxical tradition of electronic and atonal sounds in sci-fi music scoring ; Lisa M. Schmidt / Hello WALL-E! Nostalgia, utopia, and the science fiction musical ; Kathryn A.T. Edney and Kit Hughes / Just imagine : the musical effacement of dystopia in an early sound film ; Katherine Spring / Ambient reverberations : diegetic music, science fiction, and otherness ; Seth Mulliken / Sci-fi film and sounds of the future ; Matthias Konzett / It's hip to be square : rock and roll and the future ; Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper / The intergalactic lounge : Barbarella and hearing the future ; Mathew J. Bartkowiak / Proposing an alter-destiny : science fiction in the art and music of Sun Ra ; Jerome J. Langguth / Suspended motion in the title scene from The day the Earth stood still ; Stephen Husarik / Strauss, Kubrick and Nietzsche : recurrence and reactivity in the dance of becoming that is 2001 : a space odyssey ; Gregg Redner / Rocketship X-M : the sounds of a Martian breeze ; John C. Tibbetts / Seeing beyond his own time : the sounds of Jerry Goldsmith ; Cynthia J. Miller.