Germany in the loud twentieth century : an introduction / edited by Florence Feiereisen and Alexandra Merley Hill.

Other author Feiereisen, Florence.
Other author Hill, Alexandra Merley.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Descriptionxiii, 184 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects
Sound--Social aspects. --Germany. --History. --20th century.
Loudness--Social aspects. --Germany. --History. --20th century.
Space--Social aspects. --Germany. --History. --20th century.
Music--Germany. --20th century. --History and criticism.
German literature--20th century. --History and criticism.
Sound in literature.
National characteristics, German--History. --20th century.
Germany--Civilization. --20th century.
Germany--Intellectual life. --20th century.

Contents Introduction to the study of German sounds : tuning in to the aural ether / Florence Feiereisen and Alexandra Merley Hill -- section 1. New sounds in the 20th century : sounds, noise, silence -- Escaping the urban din : a comparative study of Theodor Lessing's Antilärmverein (1908) and Maximilian Negwer's Ohropax (1907/8) / John Goodyear -- When only the ears are awake : Günter Eich and the acoustical unconscious / Robert Ryder -- section 2. Defining space through sound : battlefields and concert halls -- The sonic mindedness of the Great War : viewing history through auditory lenses / Yaron Jean -- From seat cushions to formulae : understanding spatial acoustics in physics and architecture / Sabine von Fischer -- section 3. East and West : sounds in the shadow of the wall -- From the boiler room to the hotel room : sound and space in Wolfgang Hilbig's Das Provisorium (2000) / Curtis Swope -- Berlin sounds : audible cartography of a formerly divided city / Nicole Dietrich -- section 4. The politics of sound : walls with ears -- Sound and socialist identity : negotiating the musical soundscape in the Stalinist GDR / David Tompins -- Audibility is a trap : aural panopticon in The lives of others (2006) / Christiane Beuermann -- section 5. Soundscapers of the millennium : sound art and music sounds -- Sound art : new only in name : a selected history of German sound works from the last century / Brett M. Van Hoesen and Jean-Paul Perrotte -- Ghettos, hoods, blocks : the sounds of German space in rap and hip-hop / Maria Stehle.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [175]-177) and index.
Genre/formAufsatzsammlung.
LCCN 2011008720
ISBN9780199759385 (alk. paper)
ISBN0199759383 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780199759392 (alk. paper)
ISBN0199759391 (alk. paper)

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