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Title:

Germany in the loud twentieth century : an introduction / edited by Florence Feiereisen and Alexandra Merley Hill.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

xiii, 184 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Subject:

Germany--Civilization--20th century.
Sound--History--Germany--History--20th century.
Loudness--History--Germany--History--20th century.
Space--History--Germany--History--20th century.
Music--Germany--20th century--History and criticism.
German literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Sound in literature.
Germany--Intellectual life--20th century.
National characteristics, German--History--20th century.
Civilization.
German literature.
Intellectual life.
Music.
National characteristics, German.
Sound in literature.
Germany.
Geräusch.
Deutschland.
Geräusch.
Deutschland.
1900-1999
Geschichte 1900-2000.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Aufsatzsammlung.

Other Authors:

Feiereisen, Florence.
Hill, Alexandra Merley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-177) and index.

Contents:

Introduction to the study of German sounds : tuning in to the aural ether / Florence Feiereisen and Alexandra Merley Hill -- section 1. New sounds in the 20th century : sounds, noise, silence -- Escaping the urban din : a comparative study of Theodor Lessing's Antilärmverein (1908) and Maximilian Negwer's Ohropax (1907/8) / John Goodyear -- When only the ears are awake : Günter Eich and the acoustical unconscious / Robert 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 Tompins -- Audibility is a trap : aural panopticon in The lives of others (2006) / Christiane Beuermann -- 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.

ISBN:

0199759391
9780199759392
0199759383
9780199759385

OCLC:

(OCoLC)707842184

LCCN:

2011008720

Locations:

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)