Feiereisen, Florence - Germany in the Loud Twentieth Century

This book introduces German Sound Studies using a transdisciplinary approach. It invites readers to auralize space by describing characteristically German soundscapes in the long twentieth century, including the noisy city of the early 1900s, the sounds of East and West Germany, and hip-hop soundscapes of the millennium.

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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