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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ of Minnesota Pr
Publication date
August 28, 2006
Pages
279
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780816640416
ISBN-10
0816640416
Dimensions
0.75 by 6 by 9 in.
Weight
1.15 lbs.
Original list price
$69.00
Other format details
university press
Summaries and Reviews
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A sound track of Germany in the early twentieth century might conjure military music and the voice of Adolf Hitler rising above a cheering crowd. In A National Acoustics, Brian Currid challenges this reductive characterization by investigating the transformations of music in mass culture from the Weimar Republic to the end of the Nazi regime.Â
Offering a nuanced analysis of how publicity was constructed through radio programming, print media, popular song, and film, Currid examines how German citizens developed an emotional investment in the nation and other forms of collectivity that were tied to the sonic experience. Reading in detail popular genres of musicâthe Schlager (or âhitâ), so-called gypsy music, and jazzâhe offers a complex view of how they played a part in the creation of German culture.Â
A National Acoustics contributes to a new understanding of what constitutes the public sphere. In doing so, it illustrates the contradictions between Germanyâs social and cultural histories and how the technologies of recording not only were vital to the emergence of a national imaginary but also exposed the fault lines in the contested terrain of mass communication.Â
Brian Currid is an independent scholar who lives in Berlin.
Offering a nuanced analysis of how publicity was constructed through radio programming, print media, popular song, and film, Currid examines how German citizens developed an emotional investment in the nation and other forms of collectivity that were tied to the sonic experience. Reading in detail popular genres of musicâthe Schlager (or âhitâ), so-called gypsy music, and jazzâhe offers a complex view of how they played a part in the creation of German culture.Â
A National Acoustics contributes to a new understanding of what constitutes the public sphere. In doing so, it illustrates the contradictions between Germanyâs social and cultural histories and how the technologies of recording not only were vital to the emergence of a national imaginary but also exposed the fault lines in the contested terrain of mass communication.Â
Brian Currid is an independent scholar who lives in Berlin.
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Hardcover
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from Univ of Minnesota Pr (August 28, 2006)
9780816640416 | details & prices | 279 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 1.15 lbs | List price $69.00
About: A sound track of Germany in the early twentieth century might conjure military music and the voice of Adolf Hitler rising above a cheering crowd.
About: A sound track of Germany in the early twentieth century might conjure military music and the voice of Adolf Hitler rising above a cheering crowd.
Paperback
from Univ of Minnesota Pr (August 28, 2006)
9780816640423 | details & prices | 279 pages | 6.00 × 8.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $25.00
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