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