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Sound Matters Essays on the Acoustics of German Culture

Alter Nora M. Koepnick Lutz
Innbundet / 2004 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781571814364
Publisert
2004-12-16
Utgiver
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Berghahn Books, Incorporated
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490 gr
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229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
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Engelsk
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Innbundet
Antall sider
266

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Alter Nora M.
Koepnick Lutz

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Nora M. Alter is Professor of German, Film and Media Studies at the University of Florida. She is author of Vietnam Protest Theatre: The Television War on Stage (Indiana UP, 1996) and Projecting History: German Non-Fiction Film 1967-2000, (University of Michigan Press, 2002). She has published articles in New German Critique, The Germanic Review, Cultural Critique, Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, and contributed essays to Beyond 1989, Imperialism and Theatre and Triangulated Visions. She is currently working on a project on the "The Essay Film."

Sound Matters Essays on the Acoustics of German Culture

Alter Nora M. Koepnick Lutz
Innbundet / 2004 / Engelsk
Alter Nora M. Koepnick Lutz
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<i>“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.”</i><b>  ·  German Studies Review</b></p>

The 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." This 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 Sound Matters 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.
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The essays of Sound Matters 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.
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Acknowledgments Introduction: Sound Matters Nora M. Alter and Lutz Koepnick PART I: SOUND NATION? Chapter 1. Hegemony through Harmony: German Identity, Music, and Enlightenment around 1800 Nicholas Vazsonyi Chapter 2. Mahler contra Wagner: The Third Symphony and the Political Legacy of Romanticism Carl Niekerk Chapter 3. Conducting Music, Conducting War: Nazi Germany as an Acoustic Experience Frank Trommler PART II: DISSONANT VISIONS Chapter 4. The Politics and Sounds of Everyday Life in Kuhle Wampe Nora M. Alter Chapter 5. Sound Money: Aural Strategies in Rolf Thiele’s The Girl Rosemarie Hester Baer Chapter 6. The Castrato’s Voices: Word and Flesh in Fassbinder’s In a Year of Thirteen Moons Brigitte Peucker PART III: SOUNDS OF SILENCE Chapter 7. Benjamin’s Silence Lutz Koepnick Chapter 8. Deafening Sound and Troubling Silence in Volker Schlöndorff’s Die Blechtrommel Elizabeth C. Hamilton Chapter 9. Silence Is Golden? The Short Fiction of Pieke Biermann Christopher Jones PART IV: TRANSLATING SOUND Chapter 10. Broadcasting Wagner: Transmission, Dissemination, Translation Thomas F. Cohen Chapter 11. Sounds Familiar? Nina Simone’s Performances of Brecht/Weill Songs Russell A. Berman Chapter 12. Roll Over Beethoven! Chuck Berry! Mick Jagger! 1960s Rock, the Myth of Progress, and the Burden of National Identity in West Germany Richard Langston Chapter 13. The Music That Lola Ran To Caryl Flinn PART V: MEMORY, MUSIC, AND THE POSTMODERN Chapter 14. “Heiner Müller vertonen”: Heiner Goebbels and the Music of Postmodern Memory David Barnett Chapter 15. The Technological Subject: Music, Media, and Memory in Stockhausen’s Hymnen Larson Powell Notes on Contributors Index
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<i>“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.”</i><b>  ·  German Studies Review</b></p>

The 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." This 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 Sound Matters 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.
Les mer
The essays of Sound Matters 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.
Les mer
Acknowledgments Introduction: Sound Matters Nora M. Alter and Lutz Koepnick PART I: SOUND NATION? Chapter 1. Hegemony through Harmony: German Identity, Music, and Enlightenment around 1800 Nicholas Vazsonyi Chapter 2. Mahler contra Wagner: The Third Symphony and the Political Legacy of Romanticism Carl Niekerk Chapter 3. Conducting Music, Conducting War: Nazi Germany as an Acoustic Experience Frank Trommler PART II: DISSONANT VISIONS Chapter 4. The Politics and Sounds of Everyday Life in Kuhle Wampe Nora M. Alter Chapter 5. Sound Money: Aural Strategies in Rolf Thiele’s The Girl Rosemarie Hester Baer Chapter 6. The Castrato’s Voices: Word and Flesh in Fassbinder’s In a Year of Thirteen Moons Brigitte Peucker PART III: SOUNDS OF SILENCE Chapter 7. Benjamin’s Silence Lutz Koepnick Chapter 8. Deafening Sound and Troubling Silence in Volker Schlöndorff’s Die Blechtrommel Elizabeth C. Hamilton Chapter 9. Silence Is Golden? The Short Fiction of Pieke Biermann Christopher Jones PART IV: TRANSLATING SOUND Chapter 10. Broadcasting Wagner: Transmission, Dissemination, Translation Thomas F. Cohen Chapter 11. Sounds Familiar? Nina Simone’s Performances of Brecht/Weill Songs Russell A. Berman Chapter 12. Roll Over Beethoven! Chuck Berry! Mick Jagger! 1960s Rock, the Myth of Progress, and the Burden of National Identity in West Germany Richard Langston Chapter 13. The Music That Lola Ran To Caryl Flinn PART V: MEMORY, MUSIC, AND THE POSTMODERN Chapter 14. “Heiner Müller vertonen”: Heiner Goebbels and the Music of Postmodern Memory David Barnett Chapter 15. The Technological Subject: Music, Media, and Memory in Stockhausen’s Hymnen Larson Powell Notes on Contributors Index
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781571814364
Publisert
2004-12-16
Utgiver
Vendor
Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Vekt
490 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
266

Redaktør
Alter Nora M.
Koepnick Lutz

Om bidragsyterne

Nora M. Alter is Professor of German, Film and Media Studies at the University of Florida. She is author of Vietnam Protest Theatre: The Television War on Stage (Indiana UP, 1996) and Projecting History: German Non-Fiction Film 1967-2000, (University of Michigan Press, 2002). She has published articles in New German Critique, The Germanic Review, Cultural Critique, Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, and contributed essays to Beyond 1989, Imperialism and Theatre and Triangulated Visions. She is currently working on a project on the "The Essay Film."

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