Format:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 279 pages)
,
illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0816640416
,
0816640424
,
0816694192
,
9780816640416
,
9780816640423
,
9780816694198
Content:
In A National Acoustics, Brian Currid investigates the transformations of music in mass culture from the Weimar Republic to the end of the Nazi regime. Currid illustrates the contradictions between Germany's social and cultural histories and how the technologies of recording were vital to the emergence of a national imaginary and exposed the fault lines in the contested terrain of mass communication
Content:
German sounds, sounding German, and the acoustics of publicity -- Radio, mass publicity, and national fantasy -- The Schlager and the Singer film : organs of experience and the history of subjectivity -- "Musik" and "Musick" : "opus music" and mass culture -- "Songs the gypsy plays for us" : racial fantasy, music, and the state
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-267) and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Currid, Brian National acoustics Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2006
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
Author information:
Currid, Brian 1979-
