ISBN:
9789048516339
,
9789048516322
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Birdsall, Carolyn, 1980 - Nazi soundscapes
DDC:
303.375097309043
Keywords:
c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2)
;
Fascism & Nazism
;
Propaganda
;
Radio & television industry
;
Electronic books
;
Deutschland
;
Massenkultur
;
Großveranstaltung
;
Propaganda
;
Geschichte 1933-1945
;
Drittes Reich
;
Massenkultur
;
Großveranstaltung
;
Propaganda
;
Deutschland
;
Geschichte 1933-1945
;
Propaganda
;
Stadt
;
Audiovisuelle Medien
Abstract:
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 Dusseldorf, 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 manipulat
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Modern Sound and the Metropolis; Modern Modes of Listening; Theorising Listening Attention and Sound Technology; Researching Historical Soundscapes; 1. Affirmative Resonances in Urban Space; Auditory Perception and Affirmative Resonance; Sonic Brawling and Aesthetic Occupations of Public Space; Publicising Songs, Institutionalising Schlageter; The Call for National Awakening; Conclusion; 2. The Festivalisation of the Everyday; A Festival for Everyone?; Radio and the Modern Festival; Festive Exclusions: The Carnival Heimat
Description / Table of Contents:
Anti-Semitic Violence as FestivalConclusion; 3. Mobilising Sound for the Nation at War; Imagining National Community; Radio Sounds as National Celebration; Alarm Sounds as Acoustic Signals; Suspicious Sounds; Conclusion; 4. Cinema as a Gesamtkunstwerk?; The Gesamtkunstwerk in Cinema; Acoustic Metaphors: From Symphony to Postcard; Rhythmic Harmony: Sound as a Controlled Event; Synchronising the Nazi Era?; Conclusion; Afterword: Echoes of the Past; Notes; Introduction; Notes to Chapter 1; Notes to Chapter 2; Notes to Chapter 3; Notes to Chapter 4; Notes to Afterword; Bibliography
Description / Table of Contents:
Interviews (Selection)Track List; Track 1 [03:05 mins]; Track 2 [03:18 mins]; Track 3 [02:05 mins]; Track 4 [27:55 mins]; Track 5 [02:30 mins]; Track 6 [00:30 mins]; Index; Index of Names; Index of Subjects;
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