Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-viii

Preface

pp ix-x

Introduction

pp 1-16

Part I - Sonic Practices from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century

pp 17-18

1 - Soundscapes in Medieval German Literature

pp 19-35

2 - A German Dance: Music, Mesmerism, and the Glass Armonica

pp 36-52

3 - Healthy Throats, German Sounds: Women's Vocal Development and Expertise in German Soundscapes of the Long Nineteenth Century

pp 53-66

Part II - Rediscovering the Sounds of Modernism

pp 67-68

4 - Heidegger: A Little Hint on How to Listen

pp 69-81

5 - New Hearing: Soundscapes of Literary Modernism

pp 82-97

6 - Tragic Silence and Heroic Clamor: Sound Worlds and Constructed Ethnographies in Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen (1924)

pp 98-116

Part III - Listening to the Unbearable: The Sounds of National Socialism and the Holocaust

pp 117-118

7 - Hitler's Voice: Media and Politics of Embodiment

pp 119-132

8 - “The whole language was a scream”: The German Language during the Seizure of the Jews

pp 133-148

Part IV - After the Catastrophe: Sounds in Postwar Germany and Beyond

pp 149-150

9 - Revisiting the Soundscapes of Postwar West German Radio Drama

pp 151-164

10 - Jazz and Its Effect on Politics and Modernity as Presented in German Newsreels and Documentaries of the 1960s

pp 165-179

11 - On the Air: Clandestine Radiophonic Protest Groups in Italy, Switzerland, and Germany, 1976–77

pp 180-194

12 - Kittler's Sound

pp 195-209

13 - Clearing the Throat, Stumbling, and Coughing: An Anthropology of the Sonic Corpus according to Carlfriedrich Claus

pp 210-224

Part V - Sounds of the Present

pp 225-226

14 - Carsten Nicolai's Art of Disturbance: Sound, Science, and Interference

pp 227-242

15 - Echoes of the Past: Sound in the History Museum

pp 243-255

16 - (Post)Digital Sounds: Acoustic Experiments in the Age of Algorithmic Processes

pp 256-268

Part VI - Epilogue

pp 269-270

17 - The Sound of Pine Needles Falling: The Art of Max Neuhaus

pp 271-284

Select Bibliography and Further Reading

pp 285-288

Notes on the Contributors

pp 289-294