Sound Matters : : Essays on the Acoustics of German Culture /

Sound Matters : : Essays on the Acoustics of German Culture / / ed. by Nora M. Alter, Lutz Koepnick.

The sounds of music and the German language have played a significant role in the developing symbolism of the German nation. In light of the historical division of Germany into many disparate political entities and regional groups, German artists and intellectuals of the 19th and early 20th centurie...

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MitwirkendeR:
Alter, Nora M.,
Baer, Hester,
Barnett, David,
Berman, Russell A.,
Cohen, Thomas F.,
Flinn, Caryl,
Hamilton, Elizabeth C.,
Jones, Christopher,
Koepnick, Lutz,
Langston, Richard,
Niekerk, Carl,
Peucker, Brigitte,
Powell, Larson,
Trommler, Frank,
Vazsonyi, Nicholas,
HerausgeberIn:
Alter, Nora M.,
Koepnick, Lutz,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2004]
©2004
Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (266 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Sound Matters
  • Part I: Sound Nation?
  • 1. Hegemony through Harmony: German Identity, Music, and Enlightenment around 1800
  • 2. Mahler contra Wagner: The Third Symphony and the Political Legacy of Romanticism
  • 3. Conducting Music, Conducting War: Nazi Germany as an Acoustic Experience
  • Part II: Dissonant Visions
  • 4. The Politics and Sounds of Everyday Life in Kuhle Wampe
  • 5. Sound Money: Aural Strategies in Rolf Thiele’s The Girl Rosemarie
  • 6. The Castrato’s Voices: Word and Flesh in Fassbinder’s In a Year of Thirteen Moons
  • Part III: Sounds of Silence
  • 7. Benjamin’s Silence
  • 8. Deafening Sound and Troubling Silence in Volker Schlöndorff’s Die Blechtrommel
  • 9. Silence Is Golden? The Short Fiction of Pieke Biermann
  • Part IV: Translating Sound
  • 10. Broadcasting Wagner: Transmission, Dissemination, Translation
  • 11. Sounds Familiar? Nina Simone’s Performances of Brecht/Weill Songs
  • 12. Roll Over Beethoven! Chuck Berry! Mick Jagger! 1960s Rock, the Myth of Progress, and the Burden of National Identity in West Germany
  • 13. The Music That Lola Ran To
  • Part V: Memory, Music, and the Postmodern
  • 14. “Heiner Müller vertonen”: Heiner Goebbels and the Music of Postmodern Memory
  • 15. The Technological Subject: Music, Media, and Memory in Stockhausen’s Hymnen
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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