Sound Matters: Essays on the Acoustics of German Culture (Hardcover)

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 Schlondorff'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 Muller 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