Sound matters : essays on the acoustics of modern German culture / edited by Nora M. Alter and Lutz Koepnick.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Sound nation? Hegemony through harmony : German identity, music, and enlightenment around 1800 / Nicholas Vazsonyi -- Mahler contra Wagner : the Third symphony and the political legacy of romanticism / Carl Niekerk -- Conducting music, conducting war : Nazi Germany as an acoustic experience / Frank Trommler.

pt. 2. Dissonant visions. The politics and sounds of everyday life in Kuhle Wampe / Nora M. Alter -- Sound money : aural strategies in Rolf Thiele's the Girl Rosemarie / Hester Baer -- The castrato's voices : word and flesh in Fassbinder's In a year of thirteen moons / Brigitte Peucker.

pt. 3. Sounds of silence. Benjamin's silence / Lutz Koepnick -- Deafening sound and troubling silence in Volker Schlöndorff's Die Blechtrommel / Elizabeth C. Hamilton -- Silence is golden? : the short fiction of Pieke Biermann / Christopher Jones.

pt. 4. Translating sound. Broadcasting Wagner : transmission, dissemination, translation / Thomas F. Cohen -- Sounds familiar? : Nina Simone's performances of Brecht/ Weill songs / Russell A. Berman -- Roll over Beethoven! Chuck Berry! Mick Jagger! : 1960s rock, the myth of progress, and the burden of national identity in West Germany / Richard Langston -- The music that Lola ran to / Caryl Flinn.

pt. 5. Memory, music and the postmodern. "Heiner Müller vertonen" : Heiner Goebbels and the music of postmodern memory / David Barnett -- The technological subject : music, media, and memory in Stockhausen's Hymnen / Larson Powell.