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Germany in the Loud Twentieth Century This page intentionally left blank Germany in the Loud Twentieth Century An Introduction Edited by Florence Feiereisen and Alexandra Merley Hill 1 1 Oxford University Press, Inc., publishes works that further Oxford University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offi ces in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Th ailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam C opyright © 2012 by Oxford University Press Published by Oxford University Press, Inc. 198 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016 www.oup.com Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitt ed, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Germany in the loud twentieth century : an introduction / edited by Florence Feiereisen and Alexandra Merley Hill. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-19-975938-5 (alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-19-975939-2 (alk. paper) 1. Germany—Civilization—20th century. 2. Sound—Social aspects—Germany—History—20th century. 3. Loudness—Social aspects—Germany—History—20th century. 4. Space—Social aspects—Germany—History—20th century. 5. Music—Germany—20th century—History and criticism. 6. German literature—20th century—History and criticism. 7. Sound in literature. 8. Germany—Intellectual life—20th century. 9. National characteristics, German—History—20th century. I. Feiereisen, Florence. II. Hill, Alexandra Merley. DD61.8.G465 2012 943.087—dc22 2011008720 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed in the United States of America To my father, a terrifi c listener A.M.H. To Leo, my litt le noisemaker F.F. This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Contributors xi Tuning in to the Aural Ether: An Introduction to the Study of German Sounds 1 Florence Feiereisen and Alexandra Merley Hill SECTION ONE: New Sounds in the Twentieth Century: Sounds, Noise, Silence 1. Escaping the Urban Din: A Comparative Study of Th eodor Lessing’s A ntilärmverein (1908) and Maximilian Negwer’s O hropax (1908) 19 John Goodyear 2. When Only the Ears Are Awake: Günter Eich and the Acoustical Unconscious 35 Robert G. Ryder SECTION TWO: Defi ning Space through Sound: Batt lefi elds and Concert Halls 3. Th e Sonic Mindedness of the Great War: Viewing History through Auditory Lenses 51 Yaron Jean 4. From Seat Cushions to Formulae: Understanding Spatial Acoustics in Physics and Architecture 63 Sabine Von Fischer SECTION THREE: East and West: Sounds in the Shadow of the Wall 5. From the Boiler Room to the Hotel Room: Sound and Space in Wolfgang Hilbig’s D as Provisorium (2000) 81 Curtis Swope 6. Berlin Sounds: Audible Cartography of a Formerly Divided City 95 Nicole Dietrich SECTION FOUR: Th e Politics of Sound: Walls with Ears 7. Sound and Socialist Identity: Negotiating the Musical Soundscape in the Stalinist GDR 111 David Tompkins 8. Audibility Is a Trap: Aural Panopticon in Th e Lives of Others (2006) 125 Christiane Lenk SECTION FIVE: Soundscapers of the Millennium: Sound Art and Music Sounds 9. Sound Art — New Only in Name: A Selected History of German Sound Works from the Last Century 141 Brett M. Van Hoesen and Jean-Paul Perrott e 10. Ghett os, Hoods, Blocks: Th e Sounds of German Space in Rap and Hip-Hop 157 Maria Stehle Select Bibliography and Further Readings 175 Index 179 Bonus track online at www.oup.com/us/GermanyintheLoud20thCentury [ viii ] Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Th e publication of any book necessarily involves the eff orts of many people, and we would like to take the opportunity to single out some of those people. First and foremost, we would like to thank our contributors for their thought-provoking research and for their enthusiasm, which fueled their and our work on this book over the course of several years. A special thank you goes to our editor at Oxford University Press, Norman Hirschy, for championing the project throughout the revision process and for hold- ing our work to his exacting standards. Our anonymous readers provided insightful feedback that changed the way this book took shape. Th anks also to our home institutions of Middlebury College and the University of Portland. An Arthur Butine Faculty Development Grant from the University of Portland in the summer of 2010 made uninterrupted editing possible at a critical phase. Our colleagues at both institutions (as well as at Williams College and University of Massachusett s Amherst) supported us throughout the various stages of this project. Finally, thanks to both our families.
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