{"product_id":"sound-matters-essays-on-the-acoustics-of-german-culture-9781571814371","title":"Sound Matters: Essays on the Acoustics of German","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tThe sounds of music and the German language have played a significant role in the developing symbolism of the German nation. In light of the historical division of Germany into many disparate political entities and regional groups, German artists and intellectuals of the 19th and early 20th centuries conceived of musical and linguistic dispositions as the nation's most palpable common ground. According to this view, the peculiar sounds of German music and of the German language provided a direct conduit to national identity, to the deepest recesses of the German soul. So strong is this legacy of sound is still prevalent in modern German culture that philosopher Peter Sloterdijk, in a recent essay, did not even hesitate to describe post-wall Germany as an \"acoustical body.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tThis volume gathers the work of scholars from the US, Germany, and the United Kingdom to explore the role of sound in modern and postmodern German cultural production. Working across established disciplines and methodological divides, the essays of \u003ci\u003eSound Matters\u003c\/i\u003e investigate the ways in which texts, artists, and performers in all kinds of media have utilized sonic materials in order to enforce or complicate dominant notions of German cultural and national identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e“This volume is a most welcome contribution to an area of inquiry the editors concede as been slow to flourish in German Cultures Studies…the polished and thought-provoking essays in this anthology will lead readers to begin hearing things differently in their own research and teaching.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  German Studies Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/b\u003e Sound Matters\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eNora M. Alter\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLutz Koepnick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART I: SOUND NATION?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e Hegemony through Harmony: German Identity, Music, and Enlightenment around 1800\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eNicholas Vazsonyi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e Mahler contra Wagner: The Third Symphony and the Political Legacy of Romanticism\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eCarl Niekerk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e Conducting Music, Conducting War: Nazi Germany as an Acoustic Experience\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eFrank Trommler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART II: DISSONANT VISIONS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e The Politics and Sounds of Everyday Life in \u003ci\u003eKuhle Wampe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eNora M. Alter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e Sound Money: Aural Strategies in Rolf Thiele’s \u003ci\u003eThe Girl Rosemarie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eHester Baer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e The Castrato’s Voices: Word and Flesh in Fassbinder’s \u003ci\u003eIn a Year of Thirteen Moons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eBrigitte Peucker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART III: SOUNDS OF SILENCE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e Benjamin’s Silence\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eLutz Koepnick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e Deafening Sound and Troubling Silence in Volker Schlöndorff’s \u003ci\u003eDie Blechtrommel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eElizabeth C. Hamilton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e Silence Is Golden? The Short Fiction of Pieke Biermann\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eChristopher Jones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART IV: TRANSLATING SOUND\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/b\u003e Broadcasting Wagner: Transmission, Dissemination, Translation\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eThomas F. Cohen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/b\u003e Sounds Familiar? Nina Simone’s Performances of Brecht\/Weill Songs\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eRussell A. Berman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/b\u003e Roll Over Beethoven! Chuck Berry! Mick Jagger! 1960s Rock, the Myth of Progress, and the Burden of National Identity in West Germany\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eRichard Langston\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/b\u003e The Music That Lola Ran To\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eCaryl Flinn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART V: MEMORY, MUSIC, AND THE POSTMODERN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 14.\u003c\/b\u003e “Heiner Müller vertonen”: Heiner Goebbels and the Music of Postmodern Memory\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eDavid Barnett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 15.\u003c\/b\u003e The Technological Subject: Music, Media, and Memory in Stockhausen’s \u003ci\u003eHymnen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eLarson Powell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tNotes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041420378455,"sku":"9781571814371","price":25.16,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781571814371.jpg?v=1750950205","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sound-matters-essays-on-the-acoustics-of-german-culture-9781571814371","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}