Musical ‘Speech Score’ as Soundscape: Elfriede Jelinek’s Die Schutzbefohlenen (2014) on the Radio

  • Caroline A. Kita

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    Abstract

    Austrian author Elfriede Jelinek has openly acknowledged the influence of music on her experimental prose texts, which she has referred to as Sprachpartituren (‘speech scores’). This essay examines how these musically-infused texts have been reworked for the radio, through a case study of the 2014 radio drama adaptation of Die Schutzbefohlenen (Charges). Focusing on the arrangement of Jelinek’s text into a polyphonic dialogue between individual speakers and a chorus, and on the intra- and extradiegetic musical settings in the production, this essay reveals the unique ways that music is being used in contemporary German-language radio drama to articulate cultural critique.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationWord and Music Studies
    PublisherBrill Rodopi
    Pages310-325
    Number of pages16
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 2024

    Publication series

    NameWord and Music Studies
    Volume21
    ISSN (Print)1566-0958

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