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Germany in the loud twentieth century : an introduction
- Title
- Germany in the loud twentieth century : an introduction / edited by Florence Feiereisen and Alexandra Merley Hill.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xiii, 184 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Germany > Intellectual life > 20th century
- National characteristics, German > History > 20th century
- Sound > Social aspects > Germany > History > 20th century
- Loudness > Social aspects > Germany > History > 20th century
- Space > Social aspects > Germany > History > 20th century
- Sound in literature
- Music > Germany > 20th century > History and criticism
- Germany > Civilization > 20th century
- German literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 12-258
- ISBN
- 9780199759385 (alk. paper)
- 0199759383 (alk. paper)
- 9780199759392 (alk. paper)
- 0199759391 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2011008720
- OCLC
- YBP 2011008720
- Title
- Germany in the loud twentieth century : an introduction / edited by Florence Feiereisen and Alexandra Merley Hill.
- Imprint
- New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Feiereisen, Florence.Hill, Alexandra Merley.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-258