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Sound Matters - Essays on the Acoustics of German Culture (Paperback, New edition)
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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.
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. 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). Lutz Koepnick is
Associate Professor of German, Film and Media Studies at Washington
University in St. Louis. He is the author of Walter Benjamin and
the Aesthetics of Power (The University of Nebraska Press, 1999),
for which he received the MLA's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for
Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures in 2000.
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