Sound matters : essays on the acoustics of modern German culture / edited by Nora M. Alter and Lutz P. Koepnick.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alter, Nora M., editor.

Koepnick, Lutz P., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Social aspects.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 257pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2004.

Summary:

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Sound Matters / Nora M. Alter and Lutz Koepnick -- PART I: SOUND NATION? -- Chapter 1. Hegemony through Harmony: German Identity, Music, and Enlightenment around 1800 / Nicholas Vazsonyi Chapter 2. Mahler contra Wagner: The Third Symphony and the Political Legacy of Romanticism / Carl Niekerk -- Chapter 3. Conducting Music, Conducting War: Nazi Germany as an Acoustic Experience / Frank Trommler -- PART II: DISSONANT VISIONS -- Chapter 4. The Politics and Sounds of Everyday Life in Kuhle Wampe / Nora M. Alter -- Chapter 5. Sound Money: Aural Strategies in Rolf Thiele's The Girl / Rosemarie Hester Baer -- Chapter 6. The Castrato's Voices: Word and Flesh in Fassbinder's In a Year of Thirteen Moons / Brigitte Peucker PART III: SOUNDS OF SILENCE -- Chapter 7. Benjamin's Silence / Lutz Koepnick -- Chapter 8. Deafening Sound and Troubling Silence in Volker Schloendorff's Die Blechtrommel / Elizabeth C. Hamilton Chapter 9. Silence Is Golden? The Short Fiction of Pieke Biermann / Christopher Jones -- PART IV: TRANSLATING SOUND -- Chapter 10. Broadcasting Wagner: Transmission, Dissemination, Translation / Thomas F. Cohen -- Chapter 11. Sounds Familiar? Nina Simone's Performances of Brecht Weill Songs / Russell A. Berman -- Chapter 12. Roll Over Beethoven! Chuck Berry! Mick Jagger! 1960s Rock, the Myth of Progress, and the Burden of National Identity in West Germany / Richard Langston -- Chapter 13. The Music That Lola Ran To / Caryl Flinn -- PART V: MEMORY, MUSIC, AND THE POSTMODERN -- Chapter 14. "Heiner Muller vertonen": Heiner Goebbels and the Music of Postmodern Memory / David Barnett -- Chapter 15. The Technological Subject: Music, Media, and Memory in Stockhausen's Hymnen / Larson Powell -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Sound Matters / Nora M. Alter and Lutz Koepnick

PART I: SOUND NATION?

Chapter 1. Hegemony through Harmony: German Identity, Music, and Enlightenment around 1800 / Nicholas Vazsonyi Chapter 2. Mahler contra Wagner: The Third Symphony and the Political Legacy of Romanticism / Carl Niekerk

Chapter 3. Conducting Music, Conducting War: Nazi Germany as an Acoustic Experience / Frank Trommler

PART II: DISSONANT VISIONS

Chapter 4. The Politics and Sounds of Everyday Life in Kuhle Wampe / Nora M. Alter

Chapter 5. Sound Money: Aural Strategies in Rolf Thiele's The Girl / Rosemarie Hester Baer

Chapter 6. The Castrato's Voices: Word and Flesh in Fassbinder's In a Year of Thirteen Moons / Brigitte Peucker PART III: SOUNDS OF SILENCE

Chapter 7. Benjamin's Silence / Lutz Koepnick

Chapter 8. Deafening Sound and Troubling Silence in Volker Schloendorff's Die Blechtrommel / Elizabeth C. Hamilton Chapter 9. Silence Is Golden? The Short Fiction of Pieke Biermann / Christopher Jones

PART IV: TRANSLATING SOUND

Chapter 10. Broadcasting Wagner: Transmission, Dissemination, Translation / Thomas F. Cohen

Chapter 11. Sounds Familiar? Nina Simone's Performances of Brecht Weill Songs / Russell A. Berman

Chapter 12. Roll Over Beethoven! Chuck Berry! Mick Jagger! 1960s Rock, the Myth of Progress, and the Burden of National Identity in West Germany / Richard Langston

Chapter 13. The Music That Lola Ran To / Caryl Flinn

PART V: MEMORY, MUSIC, AND THE POSTMODERN

Chapter 14. "Heiner Muller vertonen": Heiner Goebbels and the Music of Postmodern Memory / David Barnett

Chapter 15. The Technological Subject: Music, Media, and Memory in Stockhausen's Hymnen Larson Powell Notes on Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-57181-437-X

1-57181-436-1