This open access volume examines the functions, reach and effectiveness of music and sound in climate-themed films, TV, commercials, and video games.

The humanities, and sub-disciplines within them, have clear roles and responsibilities in the climate crisis, and none more so than the audiovisual arts and media. It is through these receptors that most people learn truths and post-truths, receive news and 'fake news', are informed of scientific data, hear opinions from across the spectrum, and find inspiration for action.

Through close analysis of music and sound in a range of works, Soundtracks of Climate Change covers a variety of media, ethnicities, genders, languages, genres, mainstream and experimental approaches, fiction and documentary, scientific and aesthetic discourses.

The authors discuss music and sound in film, TV, and games from a global perspective, covering East Asia, Africa, the Nordic region, and Atlantic anglophone cultures. As we confront the climate crisis, this collection of articles by leading thinkers across film, music, and sound studies asks how audiovisual works convey the gravity and complexity of the problem.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.

Alexis Bennet is Lecturer in Music at Goldsmiths University of London, UK. He is reviews editor of Music, Sound, and the Moving Image. He is also a composer and performer.

Annette Davison is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Edinburgh College of Art, UK. She is the author of several monographs and co-editor of edited volumes on audiovisual media including The Sounds of the Silents in Britain (2013) and Hollywood Theory, Non-Hollywood Practice: Cinema Soundtracks in the 1980s and 1990s (2017). She is on the editorial boards of American Music; Music, Sound and the Moving Image; and the Journal of Film Music.

John Richardson is Professor of Art History, Musicology and Media Studies at University of Turku, Finland. He is the author of Singing Archaeology: Philip Glass's Akhnaten (1999) and An Eye for Music: Popular Music and the Audiovisual Surreal (2012). He co-edited several collections, including Essays on Sound and Vision (2007), The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics (2013), and The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media (2013).