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Germany in the Loud Twentieth Century seeks to understand recent
German history and contemporary German culture through its sounds
and musics, noises and silences, using the means and modes of the
emerging field of Sound Studies. German soundscapes present a
particularly fertile field for investigation and understanding,
Feiereisen and Hill argue, due to such unique factors in Germany's
history as its early and especially cacophonous industrialization,
the sheer loudness of its wars, and the possibilities of shared
noises in its division and reunification. Organized largely but not
strictly chronologically, chapters use the unique contours of the
German aural experience to examine how these soundscapes - the
sonic environments, the ever-present arrays of noises with which
everyone lives - ultimately reveal the possibility of "national"
sounds. Together the chapters consider the acoustic national
identity of Germany, or the cultural significance of sounds and
silence, since the development and rise of sound-recording and
sound-disseminating technologies in the early 1900s Chapters draw
examples from a remarkably broad range of contexts and historical
periods, from the noisy urban spaces at the turn of the twentieth
century to battlefields and concert halls to radio and television
broadcasting to the hip hop soundscapes of today. As a whole, the
book makes a compelling case for the scholarly utility of listening
to them. An online "Bonus Track" of teaching materials offers
instructors practical tips for classroom use.
From Weimar to Christiania is a new compilation of graduate student
work in the fields of German and Scandinavian Studies. Resulting
from research presented at a unique graduate student conference at
the University of Massachusetts Amherst, these essays utilize a
wide variety of disciplinary approaches and represent an ambitious
and successful effort to connect related yet distinct fields. This
anthology is aimed at scholars within the broad areas of German and
Scandinavian Studies. All of the contributions speak to an
appreciation of cultural studies as a diverse collection of
theoretical tools, which provide the historian, political
scientist, and literary and film scholars gathered here with the
means to contextualize and investigate cultural productions,
situations, and environments. From Weimar to Christiania delivers
compelling research that expands bodies of knowledge in northern
European studies.
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