صدا مهم است: مقالاتی دربارهٔ آکوستیک فرهنگ آلمان (مونوگرافی‌های تاریخ آلمان)

The sounds of music and the German language have played a significant role in the developing symbolism of the German nation. In light of the historical division of Germany into many disparate political entities and regional groups, German artists and intellectuals of the 19 th and early 20 th centuries ­conceived of musical and linguistic dispositions as the nation's most palpable common ground. According to this view, the peculiar sounds of German music and of the German language provided a direct conduit to national identity, to the deepest recesses of the German soul. So strong is this legacy of sound is still prevalent in modern German culture that philosopher Peter Sloterdijk, in a recent essay, did not even hesitate to describe post-wall Germany as an "acoustical body." This volume gathers the work of scholars from the US, Germany, and the United Kingdom to explore the role of sound in modern and postmodern German cultural production. Working across established disciplines and methodological divides, the essays of Sound Matters investigate the ways in which texts, artists, and performers in all kinds of media have utilized sonic materials in order to enforce or complicate dominant notions of German cultural and national identity. About the Authors: Nora M. Alter is Associate Professor of German, Film and Media Studies at the University of Florida. Lutz Koepnick is Associate Professor of German, Film and Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction: Sound Matters Part I: Sound Nation? 1. Hegemony through Harmony: German Identity, Music, and Enlightenment around 1800 2. Mahler contra Wagner: The Third Symphony and the Political Legacy of Romanticism 3. Conducting Music, Conducting War: Nazi Germany as an Acoustic Experience Part II: Dissonant Visions 4. The Politics and Sounds of Everyday Life in Kuhle Wampe 5. Sound Money: Aural Strategies in Rolf Thiele’s The Girl Rosemarie 6. The Castrato’s Voices: Word and Flesh in Fassbinder’s In a Year of Thirteen Moons Part III: Sounds of Silence 7. Benjamin’s Silence 8. Deafening Sound and Troubling Silence in Volker Schlöndorff’s Die Blechtrommel 9. Silence Is Golden? The Short Fiction of Pieke Biermann Part IV: Translating Sound 10. Broadcasting Wagner: Transmission, Dissemination, Translation 11. Sounds Familiar? Nina Simone’s Performances of Brecht/Weill Songs 12. Roll Over Beethoven! Chuck Berry! Mick Jagger! 1960s Rock, the Myth of Progress, and the Burden of National Identity in West Germany 13. The Music That Lola Ran To Part V: Memory, Music, and the Postmodern 14. “Heiner Müller vertonen”: Heiner Goebbels and the Music of Postmodern Memory 15. The Technological Subject: Music, Media, and Memory in Stockhausen’s Hymnen Notes on Contributors Index Working across established disciplines & methodological divides, these essays investigate the ways in which texts, artists, & performers in all kinds of media have utilized sound materials in order to enforce or complicate dominant notions of German cultural & national identity