Sound matters Essays on the Acoustics of Modern German Culture
Häftad bok. Berghahn Books New York Oxford. 2006. 257 sidor.
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The sounds of music, and the German language have played a significant role in the developing symbolism of the German nation. This volume gathers the innovtive work of scholars from the U.S., Germany, and the U.K. to explore the role of sound in modern and postmodern German cultural production. The fifteen original essays 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.
Contents: Mahler contra Wagner; Conducting music, conducing war; Broadcasting Wagner; Nina Simone's Performances of Brecht/Weill Songs; Volker Schöndorffs Die Blechtrommel, etc, etc
