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Companion to Sound in German-Speaking Cultures

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Explores sonic events and auditory experiences in German-speaking contexts from the Middle Ages to the digital age, opening up new understandings.As a sub-discipline of cultural studies, sound studies is a firmly established field of inquiry, examining how sonic events and auditory experiences unfold in culturally and historically contingent life situations.Responding to new questions in sound studies in the context of German-speaking cultures, and incorporating up-to-date methodologies, this Companion explores the significance of sound from the Middle Ages and the classical-romantic period through high-capitalist industrial modernity, the Nazi period and the Holocaust, and postwar Germany to the present digital age. The volume examines how sonic events are represented in literary fiction, radio productions, cinema, newsreels, documentaries, sound art, museum exhibitions, and other media, drawing for this inquiry on philosophy, aesthetics, literary criticism, musicology, art theory, and cultural studies. Each essay is a case study - of persons, events, and sonic, visual, or textual artifacts - situating them in wider contexts of culture, history, and politics. The volume not only revisits well-known topics from new angles, but seeks especially to explore neglected issues on the cultural periphery. It assembles original essays by leaders in the field and emerging scholars from the United States and Europe. Offering an advanced introduction to the topic, the Companion is addressed to anyone interested in how the analysis of sound phenomena opens up new understandings of German-speaking cultures.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-10-24
Mått152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt514 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Antal sidor312
FörlagBoydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN9781640141223

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ROLF J. GOEBEL is Distinguished Professor of German, Emeritus, at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. ALBRECHT CLASSEN is University Distinguished Professor of German Studies at the University of Arizona; he received the title of Grand Knight Commander of the Most Noble Order of the Three Lions in 2017, in recognition of his outstanding service to German studies. Larson Powell is Curator's Professor of Film Studies at University of Missouri, Kansas City.

List of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroductionRolf J. GoebelPart I. Sonic Practices from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century1: Soundscapes in Medieval German LiteratureAlbrecht Classen2: A German Dance: Music, Mesmerism, and the Glass ArmonicaLawrence Kramer3: Healthy Throats, German Sounds: Women's Vocal Development and Expertise in German Soundscapes of the Long Nineteenth CenturyJosephine HoegaertsPart II. Rediscovering the Sounds of Modernism4: Heidegger: A Little Hint on How to ListenJames M. Kopf5: New Hearing: Soundscapes of Literary ModernismFrieder von Ammon6: Tragic Silence and Heroic Clamor: Sound Worlds and Constructed Ethnographies in Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen (1924)Daniel ShererPart III. Listening to the Unbearable: The Sounds of National Socialism and the Holocaust7: Hitler's Voice: Media and Politics of EmbodimentTyler Whitney8: "The whole language was a scream": The German Language During the Seizure of the JewsSara Ann SewellPart IV. After the Catastrophe: Sounds in Postwar Germany and Beyond9: Revisiting the Soundscapes of Postwar West German Radio DramaCaroline A. Kita10: Jazz and Its Effect on Politics and Modernity as Presented in German Newsreels and Documentaries of the 1960sSigrun Lehnert11: On the Air: Clandestine Radiophonic Protest Groups in Italy, Switzerland, and Germany, 1976-77Anna Bromley12: Kittler's SoundLarson Powell13: Clearing the Throat, Stumbling, and Coughing: An Anthropology of the Sonic Corpus According to Carlfriedrich ClausHolger SchulzePart V. Sounds of the Present14: Carsten Nicolai's Art of Disturbance: Sound, Science, and InterferenceLutz Koepnick15: Echoes of the Past: Sound in the History MuseumDaniel Morat16: (Post)Digital Sounds: Acoustic Experiments in the Age of Algorithmic ProcessesChristiane HeibachPart Vi. Epilogue17: The Sound of Pine Needles Falling: The Art of Max NeuhausYehuda SafranSelect Bibliography and List of Further ReadingNotes on the ContributorsIndex