Sound Matters: Essays on the Acoustics of German Culture

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Sound Matters • Nora M. Alter and Lutz Koepnick
Part I: Sound Nation?
	1. Hegemony through Harmony: German Identity, Music, and Enlightenment around 1800 • Nicholas Vazsonyi
	2. Mahler contra Wagner: The Third Symphony and the Political Legacy of Romanticism • Carl Niekerk
	3. Conducting Music, Conducting War: Nazi Germany as an Acoustic Experience • Frank Trommler
Part II: Dissonant Visions
	4. The Politics and Sounds of Everyday Life in Kuhle Wampe • Nora M. Alter
	5. Sound Money: Aural Strategies in Rolf Thiele’s The Girl Rosemarie • Hester Baer
	6. The Castrato’s Voices: Word and Flesh in Fassbinder’s In a Year of Thirteen Moons • Brigitte Peucker
Part III: Sounds of Silence
	7. Benjamin’s Silence • Lutz Koepnick
	8. Deafening Sound and Troubling Silence in Volker Schlöndorff’s Die Blechtrommel • Elizabeth C. Hamilton
	9. Silence Is Golden? The Short Fiction of Pieke Biermann • Christopher Jones
Part IV: Translating Sound
	10. Broadcasting Wagner: Transmission, Dissemination, Translation • Thomas F. Cohen
	11. Sounds Familiar? Nina Simone’s Performances of Brecht/Weill Songs • Russell A. Berman
	12. Roll Over Beethoven! Chuck Berry! Mick Jagger! 1960s Rock, the Myth of Progress, and the Burden of National Identity in West Germany • Richard Langston
	13. The Music That Lola Ran To • Caryl Flinn
Part V: Memory, Music, and the Postmodern
	14. “Heiner Müller vertonen”: Heiner Goebbels and the Music of Postmodern Memory • David Barnett
	15. The Technological Subject: Music, Media, and Memory in Stockhausen’s Hymnen • Larson Powell
Notes on Contributors
Index