Germany in the loud twentieth century : an introduction /

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Imprint:	New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
Description:	xiii, 184 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Sound -- Social aspects -- Germany -- History -- 20th century. Loudness -- Social aspects -- Germany -- History -- 20th century. Space -- Social aspects -- Germany -- History -- 20th century. Music -- Germany -- 20th century -- History and criticism. German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Sound in literature. National characteristics, German -- History -- 20th century. Civilization. German literature. Intellectual life. Music. National characteristics, German. Sound in literature. Germany -- Civilization -- 20th century. Germany -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. Germany. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8541399

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Other authors / contributors:	Feiereisen, Florence. Hill, Alexandra Merley.
ISBN:	9780199759385 (alk. paper) 0199759383 (alk. paper) 9780199759392 (alk. paper) 0199759391 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Contributors
Tuning in to the Aural Ether: An Introduction to the Study of German Sounds
Section 1. New Sounds in the Twentieth Century: Sounds, Noise, Silence
1. Escaping the Urban Din: A Comparative Study of Theodor Lessing's Antilärmverein (1908) and Maximilian Negwer's Ohropax (1908)
2. When Only the Ears Are Awake: Günter Eich and the Acoustical Unconscious
Section 2. Defining Space through Sound: Battlefields and Concert Halls
3. The Sonic Mindedness of the Great War: Viewing History through Auditory Lenses
4. From Seat Cushions to Formulae: Understanding Spatial Acoustics in Physics and Architecture
Section 3. East and West: Sounds in the Shadow of the Wall
5. From the Boiler Room to the Hotel Room: Sound and Space in Wolfgang Hilbig's Das Provisorium (2000)
6. Berlin Sounds: Audible Cartography of a Formerly Divided City
Section 4. The Politics of Sound: Walls with Ears
7. Sound and Socialist Identity: Negotiating the Musical Soundscape in the Stalinist GDR
8. Audibility Is a Trap: Aural Panopticon in The Lives of Others (2006)
Section 5. Soundscapers of the Millennium: Sound Art and Music Sounds
9. Sound Art-New Only in Name: A Selected History of German Sound Works from the Last Century
10. Ghettos, Hoods, Blocks: The Sounds of German Space in Rap and Hip-Hop
Select Bibliography and Further Readings
Index

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