Sound Matters: Essays on the Acoustics of German Culture (Monographs in German History)

 
9781571814364: Sound Matters: Essays on the Acoustics of German Culture (Monographs in German History)
ISBN 10: 1571814361 ISBN 13: 9781571814364
Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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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Verlag
Berghahn Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1571814361
ISBN 13 
9781571814364
Einband
Bibliothekseinband
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
266
Herausgeber
Alter Nora M., Koepnick Lutz
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