Germany in the Loud Twentieth Century: Germany in the Loud Twentieth Century: An Introduction
- Editor: Feiereisen, Florence
- Editor: Hill, Alexandra Merley
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Contents
- Introduction to the Study of German Sounds: Tuning in to the Aural Ether, Florence Feiereisen and Alexandra Merley Hill
- Section I: New Sounds in the 20th Century: Sounds, Noise, Silence
- Chapter 1: Escaping the Urban Din: A Comparative Study of Theodor Lessing's Antilarmverein (1908) and Maximilian Negwer's Ohropax (1907/8), John Goodyear
- Chapter 2: When Only the Ears are Awake: Gunter Eich and the Acoustical Unconscious, Robert Ryder
- Section II: Defining Space Through Sound: Battlefields and Concert Halls
- Chapter 3: The Sonic Mindedness of the Great War: Viewing History through Auditory Lenses, Yaron Jean
- Chapter 4: From Seat Cushions to Formulae: Understanding Spatial Acoustics in Physics and Architecture, Sabine von Fischer
- Section III: East and West: Sounds in the Shadow of the Wall
- Chapter 5: From the Boiler Room to the Hotel Room: Sound and Space in Wolfgang Hilbig's Das Provisorium (2000), Curtis Swope
- Chapter 6: Berlin Sounds: Audible Cartography of a Formerly Divided City, Nicole Dietrich
- Section IV: The Politics of Sound: Walls with Ears
- Chapter 7: Sound and Socialist Identity: Negotiating the Musical Soundscape in the Stalinist GDR, David Tompkins
- Chapter 8: Audibility is a Trap: Aural Panopticon in The Lives of Others (2006), Christiana Lenk
- Section V: Soundscapers of the Millennium: Sound Art and Music Sounds
- Chapter 9: Sound Art - New Only In Name: A Selected History of German Sound Works from the Last Century, Brett M. Van Hoesen and Jean-Paul Perrotte
- Chapter 10: Ghettos, Hoods, Blocks: The Sounds of German Space in Rap and Hip-Hop, Maria Stehle
- Bibliography
- Index