| 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. |
