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
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."
“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.” · German Studies Review
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