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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Feiereisen, Florence.

Hill, Alexandra Merley.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, German.

History.

Space.

Social aspects.

Loudness.

Sound.

Germany--Civilization--20th century.

Germany.

Civilization.

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.

Music.

German literature--20th century--History and criticism.

German literature.

Sound in literature.

Germany--Intellectual life--20th century.

Intellectual life.

National characteristics, German--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

xiii, 184 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]

Summary:

Germany in the Loud Twentieth Century seeks to understand recent German history and contemporary German culture through its sounds and musics, noises and silences. Chapters draw from a remarkably broad range of contexts and historical periods, from noisy urban spaces at the turn of the twentieth century to battlefields and concert halls to the hip hop soundscapes of today. An online Bonus Track of teaching materials offers practical tips for classroom use. Book jacket.

Contents:

Tuning in to the aural ether : an introduction to the study of German sounds / Florence Feiereisen and Alexandra Merley Hill

section 1. New sounds in the twentieth century : sounds, noise, silence

Escaping the urban din : a comparative study of Theodor Lessing's Antilärmverein (1908) and Maximilian Negwer's Ohropax (1908) / John Goodyear

When only the ears are awake : Günter Eich and the acoustical unconscious / Robert G. 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 Tompkins

Audibility is a trap : aural panopticon in The lives of others (2006) / Christiane Lenk

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199759385

0199759383

9780199759392

0199759391

OCLC:

707842184