Sound Matters: Essays on the Acoustics of German Culture

CONTENTS\nAcknowledgments\nIntroduction: Sound Matters\nPart I: Sound Nation?\n1. Hegemony through Harmony: German Identity, Music, and Enlightenment around 1800\n2. Mahler contra Wagner: The Third Symphony and the Political Legacy of Romanticism\n3. Conducting Music, Conducting War: Nazi Germany as an Acoustic Experience\nPart II: Dissonant Visions\n4. The Politics and Sounds of Everyday Life in Kuhle Wampe\n5. Sound Money: Aural Strategies in Rolf Thiele’s The Girl Rosemarie\n6. The Castrato’s Voices: Word and Flesh in Fassbinder’s In a Year of Thirteen Moons\nPart III: Sounds of Silence\n7. Benjamin’s Silence\n8. Deafening Sound and Troubling Silence in Volker Schlöndorff’s Die Blechtrommel\n9. Silence Is Golden? The Short Fiction of Pieke Biermann\nPart IV: Translating Sound\n10. Broadcasting Wagner: Transmission, Dissemination, Translation\n11. Sounds Familiar? Nina Simone’s Performances of Brecht/Weill Songs\n12. Roll Over Beethoven! Chuck Berry! Mick Jagger! 1960s Rock, the Myth of Progress, and the Burden of National Identity in West Germany\n13. The Music That Lola Ran To\nPart V: Memory, Music, and the Postmodern\n14. “Heiner Müller vertonen”: Heiner Goebbels and the Music of Postmodern Memory\n15. The Technological Subject: Music, Media, and Memory in Stockhausen’s Hymnen\nNotes on Contributors\nIndex