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Sound matters : essays on the acoustics of modern German culture
- Title
- Sound matters : essays on the acoustics of modern German culture / edited by Nora M. Alter and Lutz Koepnick.
- Publication
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2004.
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- Description
- vii, 257 p. : music; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- pt. 1. Sound nation? Hegemony through harmony : German identity, music, and enlightenment around 1800 / Nicholas Vazsonyi -- Mahler contra Wagner : the Third symphony and the political legacy of romanticism / Carl Niekerk -- Conducting music, conducting war : Nazi Germany as an acoustic experience / Frank Trommler.
- pt. 2. Dissonant visions. The politics and sounds of everyday life in Kuhle Wampe / Nora M. Alter -- Sound money : aural strategies in Rolf Thiele's the Girl Rosemarie / Hester Baer -- The castrato's voices : word and flesh in Fassbinder's In a year of thirteen moons / Brigitte Peucker.
- pt. 3. Sounds of silence. Benjamin's silence / Lutz Koepnick -- Deafening sound and troubling silence in Volker Schlöndorff's Die Blechtrommel / Elizabeth C. Hamilton -- Silence is golden? : the short fiction of Pieke Biermann / Christopher Jones.
- pt. 4. Translating sound. Broadcasting Wagner : transmission, dissemination, translation / Thomas F. Cohen -- Sounds familiar? : Nina Simone's performances of Brecht/ Weill songs / Russell A. Berman -- Roll over Beethoven! Chuck Berry! Mick Jagger! : 1960s rock, the myth of progress, and the burden of national identity in West Germany / Richard Langston -- The music that Lola ran to / Caryl Flinn.
- pt. 5. Memory, music and the postmodern. "Heiner Müller vertonen" : Heiner Goebbels and the music of postmodern memory / David Barnett -- The technological subject : music, media, and memory in Stockhausen's Hymnen / Larson Powell.
- Call Number
- JME 05-213
- ISBN
- 1571814361 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2003063625
- OCLC
- 53899979
- Title
- Sound matters : essays on the acoustics of modern German culture / edited by Nora M. Alter and Lutz Koepnick.
- Imprint
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2004.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Alter, Nora M., 1962- EditorKoepnick, Lutz P. (Lutz Peter) Editor
- Research Call Number
- JME 05-213