Germany in the loud twentieth century
Subtitle: an introduction
By: edited by Florence Feiereisen and Alexandra Merley Hill
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780199759385; 9780199759392
Subjects: Sound; Sound in literature; Space; Intellectual life; German literature; History and criticism; German National characteristics; Civilization; Music; Loudness; History
Description: This book introduces German Sound Studies using a transdisciplinary approach. It invites readers to auralize space by describing characteristically German soundscapes in the long twentieth century, including the noisy city of the early 1900s the sounds of East and West Germany, and hip-hop soundscapes of the millennium.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-177) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the study of German sounds : tuning in to the aural ether / Florence Feiereisen and Alexandra Merley Hill; title: section 1. New sounds in the 20th century : sounds, noise, silence; title: Escaping the urban din : a comparative study of Theodor Lessing's Antilärmverein (1908) and Maximilian Negwer's Ohropax (1907/8) / John Goodyear; title: When only the ears are awake : Günter Eich and the acoustical unconscious / Robert Ryder; title: section 2. Defining space through sound : battlefields and concert halls; title: The sonic mindedness of the Great War : viewing history through auditory lenses / Yaron Jean; title: From seat cushions to formulae : understanding spatial acoustics in physics and architecture / Sabine von Fischer; title: section 3. East and West : sounds in the shadow of the wall; title: From the boiler room to the hotel room : sound and space in Wolfgang Hilbig's Das Provisorium (2000) / Curtis Swope; title: Berlin sounds : audible cartography of a formerly divided city / Nicole Dietrich; title: section 4. The politics of sound : walls with ears; title: Sound and socialist identity : negotiating the musical soundscape in the Stalinist GDR / David Tompins; title: Audibility is a trap : aural panopticon in The lives of others (2006) / Christiane Beuermann; title: section 5. Soundscapers of the millennium : sound art and music sounds; title: 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; title: Ghettos, hoods, blocks : the sounds of German space in rap and hip-hop / Maria Stehle.