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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