Book ID: CBB001201426

Nazi Soundscapes: Sound, Technology and Urban Space in Germany, 1933--1945 (2012)

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Birdsall, Carolyn (Author)


Amsterdam University Press


Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: 272 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index
Language: English

Following the formation of the German National Socialist Party in the 1920s, various forms of sound (popular music, voice, noise and silence) and media technology (radio and loudspeaker systems) were configured as useful to the party's political programme. Focusing on the urban "soundscape" of Düsseldorf, the author makes a persuasive case for investigating such sound events and technological devices in their specific contexts of production and reception. Nazi Soundscapes identifies strategies for controlling space and reworking identity patterns, but also the ongoing difficulties in manipulating mediated sounds and the spaces of listening reception, whether in the home, workplace, the cinema, public rituals or with wartime siren systems. The study revises visualist notions of social control, and reveals the disciplinary functions of listening (as eavesdropping) as well as the sonic dimensions to exclusion and violence during Nazism. An essential title for everyone interested in the links between German political culture, audiovisual media and urban history, Nazi Soundscapes provides a fascinating analysis of the cultural significance of sound between the 1920s and early 1940s."--Publisher's website.

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Review Sonja Neumann (2014) Review of "Nazi Soundscapes: Sound, Technology and Urban Space in Germany, 1933--1945". Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology (pp. 177-178). unapi

Review Sonja Neumann (2014) Review of "Nazi Soundscapes: Sound, Technology and Urban Space in Germany, 1933--1945". Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology (pp. 177-178). unapi

Review Marszolek, Inge (2014) Review of "Nazi Soundscapes: Sound, Technology and Urban Space in Germany, 1933--1945". German History (p. 329). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Sterne, Jonathan
Albin J. Zak, III
Wouters, Kees
Urwand, Ben
Taylor, Timothy
Sandywell, Barry
Concepts
Music
Technology and music
Sound
Sound studies
Sound Recording Industry
Technology and culture
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
21st century
19th century
20th century, late
Places
Germany
United States
Great Britain
Weimar Republic (1919-1933)
New York City (New York, U.S.)
Netherlands
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