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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.
ISBN
9780199759385 (alk. paper)
0199759383 (alk. paper)
9780199759392 (alk. paper)
0199759391 (alk. paper)
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
Physical Description
xiii, 184 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 12, 2012
Bibliography
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.
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