A Companion to Sound in German-Speaking Cultures

ROLF J. GOEBEL is Distinguished Professor of German, Emeritus, at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. ALBRECHT CLASSEN is University Distinguished Professor of German Studies at the University of Arizona; he received the title of Grand Knight Commander of the Most Noble Order of the Three Lions in 2017, in recognition of his outstanding service to German studies. Larson Powell is Curator's Professor of Film Studies at University of Missouri, Kansas City.

List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
Rolf J. Goebel

Part I. Sonic Practices from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century
1: Soundscapes in Medieval German Literature
Albrecht Classen
2: A German Dance: Music, Mesmerism, and the Glass Armonica
Lawrence Kramer
3: Healthy Throats, German Sounds: Women's Vocal Development and Expertise in German Soundscapes of the Long Nineteenth Century
Josephine Hoegaerts

Part II. Rediscovering the Sounds of Modernism
4: Heidegger: A Little Hint on How to Listen
James M. Kopf
5: New Hearing: Soundscapes of Literary Modernism
Frieder von Ammon
6: Tragic Silence and Heroic Clamor: Sound Worlds and Constructed Ethnographies in Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen (1924)
Daniel Sherer

Part III. Listening to the Unbearable: The Sounds of National Socialism and the Holocaust
7: Hitler's Voice: Media and Politics of Embodiment
Tyler Whitney
8: "The whole language was a scream": The German Language During the Seizure of the Jews
Sara Ann Sewell

Part IV. After the Catastrophe: Sounds in Postwar Germany and Beyond
9: Revisiting the Soundscapes of Postwar West German Radio Drama
Caroline A. Kita
10: Jazz and Its Effect on Politics and Modernity as Presented in German Newsreels and Documentaries of the 1960s
Sigrun Lehnert
11: On the Air: Clandestine Radiophonic Protest Groups in Italy, Switzerland, and Germany, 1976-77
Anna Bromley
12: Kittler's Sound
Larson Powell
13: Clearing the Throat, Stumbling, and Coughing: An Anthropology of the Sonic Corpus According to Carlfriedrich Claus
Holger Schulze

Part V. Sounds of the Present
14: Carsten Nicolai's Art of Disturbance: Sound, Science, and Interference
Lutz Koepnick
15: Echoes of the Past: Sound in the History Museum
Daniel Morat
16: (Post)Digital Sounds: Acoustic Experiments in the Age of Algorithmic Processes
Christiane Heibach

Part Vi. Epilogue
17: The Sound of Pine Needles Falling: The Art of Max Neuhaus
Yehuda Safran

Select Bibliography and List of Further Reading
Notes on the Contributors
Index