Nora M. Alter is Professor of German, Film and Media Studies at the University of Florida. She is author of Vietnam Protest Theatre: The Television War on Stage (Indiana UP, 1996) and Projecting History: German Non-Fiction Film 1967-2000, (University of Michigan Press, 2002). She has published articles in New German Critique, The Germanic Review, Cultural Critique, Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, and contributed essays to Beyond 1989, Imperialism and Theatre and Triangulated Visions. She is currently working on a project on the "The Essay Film."

“This volume is a most welcome contribution to an area of inquiry the editors concede as been slow to flourish in German Cultures Studies…the polished and thought-provoking essays in this anthology will lead readers to begin hearing things differently in their own research and teaching.”  ·  German Studies Review

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Sound MattersNora M. Alter and Lutz KoepnickPART I: SOUND NATION?Chapter 1. Hegemony through Harmony: German Identity, Music, and Enlightenment around 1800Nicholas VazsonyiChapter 2. Mahler contra Wagner: The Third Symphony and the Political Legacy of RomanticismCarl NiekerkChapter 3. Conducting Music, Conducting War: Nazi Germany as an Acoustic ExperienceFrank TrommlerPART II: DISSONANT VISIONSChapter 4. The Politics and Sounds of Everyday Life in Kuhle Wampe Nora M. AlterChapter 5. Sound Money: Aural Strategies in Rolf Thiele’s The Girl RosemarieHester BaerChapter 6. The Castrato’s Voices: Word and Flesh in Fassbinder’s In a Year of Thirteen MoonsBrigitte PeuckerPART III: SOUNDS OF SILENCEChapter 7. Benjamin’s SilenceLutz KoepnickChapter 8. Deafening Sound and Troubling Silence in Volker Schlöndorff’s Die BlechtrommelElizabeth C. HamiltonChapter 9. Silence Is Golden? The Short Fiction of Pieke BiermannChristopher JonesPART IV: TRANSLATING SOUNDChapter 10. Broadcasting Wagner: Transmission, Dissemination, TranslationThomas F. CohenChapter 11. Sounds Familiar? Nina Simone’s Performances of Brecht/Weill SongsRussell A. BermanChapter 12. Roll Over Beethoven! Chuck Berry! Mick Jagger! 1960s Rock, the Myth of Progress, and the Burden of National Identity in West GermanyRichard LangstonChapter 13. The Music That Lola Ran ToCaryl FlinnPART V: MEMORY, MUSIC, AND THE POSTMODERNChapter 14. “Heiner Müller vertonen”: Heiner Goebbels and the Music of Postmodern MemoryDavid BarnettChapter 15. The Technological Subject: Music, Media, and Memory in Stockhausen’s HymnenLarson PowellNotes on ContributorsIndex

Nora M. Alter is Professor of German, Film and Media Studies at the University of Florida. She is author of Vietnam Protest Theatre: The Television War on Stage (Indiana UP, 1996) and Projecting History: German Non-Fiction Film 1967-2000, (University of Michigan Press, 2002). She has published articles in New German Critique, The Germanic Review, Cultural Critique, Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, and contributed essays to Beyond 1989, Imperialism and Theatre and Triangulated Visions. She is currently working on a project on the "The Essay Film."

“This volume is a most welcome contribution to an area of inquiry the editors concede as been slow to flourish in German Cultures Studies…the polished and thought-provoking essays in this anthology will lead readers to begin hearing things differently in their own research and teaching.”  ·  German Studies Review

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Sound MattersNora M. Alter and Lutz KoepnickPART I: SOUND NATION?Chapter 1. Hegemony through Harmony: German Identity, Music, and Enlightenment around 1800Nicholas VazsonyiChapter 2. Mahler contra Wagner: The Third Symphony and the Political Legacy of RomanticismCarl NiekerkChapter 3. Conducting Music, Conducting War: Nazi Germany as an Acoustic ExperienceFrank TrommlerPART II: DISSONANT VISIONSChapter 4. The Politics and Sounds of Everyday Life in Kuhle Wampe Nora M. AlterChapter 5. Sound Money: Aural Strategies in Rolf Thiele’s The Girl RosemarieHester BaerChapter 6. The Castrato’s Voices: Word and Flesh in Fassbinder’s In a Year of Thirteen MoonsBrigitte PeuckerPART III: SOUNDS OF SILENCEChapter 7. Benjamin’s SilenceLutz KoepnickChapter 8. Deafening Sound and Troubling Silence in Volker Schlöndorff’s Die BlechtrommelElizabeth C. HamiltonChapter 9. Silence Is Golden? The Short Fiction of Pieke BiermannChristopher JonesPART IV: TRANSLATING SOUNDChapter 10. Broadcasting Wagner: Transmission, Dissemination, TranslationThomas F. CohenChapter 11. Sounds Familiar? Nina Simone’s Performances of Brecht/Weill SongsRussell A. BermanChapter 12. Roll Over Beethoven! Chuck Berry! Mick Jagger! 1960s Rock, the Myth of Progress, and the Burden of National Identity in West GermanyRichard LangstonChapter 13. The Music That Lola Ran ToCaryl FlinnPART V: MEMORY, MUSIC, AND THE POSTMODERNChapter 14. “Heiner Müller vertonen”: Heiner Goebbels and the Music of Postmodern MemoryDavid BarnettChapter 15. The Technological Subject: Music, Media, and Memory in Stockhausen’s HymnenLarson PowellNotes on ContributorsIndex

Nora M. Alter is Professor of German, Film and Media Studies at the University of Florida. She is author of Vietnam Protest Theatre: The Television War on Stage (Indiana UP, 1996) and Projecting History: German Non-Fiction Film 1967-2000, (University of Michigan Press, 2002). She has published articles in New German Critique, The Germanic Review, Cultural Critique, Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, and contributed essays to Beyond 1989, Imperialism and Theatre and Triangulated Visions. She is currently working on a project on the "The Essay Film."

“This volume is a most welcome contribution to an area of inquiry the editors concede as been slow to flourish in German Cultures Studies…the polished and thought-provoking essays in this anthology will lead readers to begin hearing things differently in their own research and teaching.”  ·  German Studies Review

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Sound MattersNora M. Alter and Lutz KoepnickPART I: SOUND NATION?Chapter 1. Hegemony through Harmony: German Identity, Music, and Enlightenment around 1800Nicholas VazsonyiChapter 2. Mahler contra Wagner: The Third Symphony and the Political Legacy of RomanticismCarl NiekerkChapter 3. Conducting Music, Conducting War: Nazi Germany as an Acoustic ExperienceFrank TrommlerPART II: DISSONANT VISIONSChapter 4. The Politics and Sounds of Everyday Life in Kuhle Wampe Nora M. AlterChapter 5. Sound Money: Aural Strategies in Rolf Thiele’s The Girl RosemarieHester BaerChapter 6. The Castrato’s Voices: Word and Flesh in Fassbinder’s In a Year of Thirteen MoonsBrigitte PeuckerPART III: SOUNDS OF SILENCEChapter 7. Benjamin’s SilenceLutz KoepnickChapter 8. Deafening Sound and Troubling Silence in Volker Schlöndorff’s Die BlechtrommelElizabeth C. HamiltonChapter 9. Silence Is Golden? The Short Fiction of Pieke BiermannChristopher JonesPART IV: TRANSLATING SOUNDChapter 10. Broadcasting Wagner: Transmission, Dissemination, TranslationThomas F. CohenChapter 11. Sounds Familiar? Nina Simone’s Performances of Brecht/Weill SongsRussell A. BermanChapter 12. Roll Over Beethoven! Chuck Berry! Mick Jagger! 1960s Rock, the Myth of Progress, and the Burden of National Identity in West GermanyRichard LangstonChapter 13. The Music That Lola Ran ToCaryl FlinnPART V: MEMORY, MUSIC, AND THE POSTMODERNChapter 14. “Heiner Müller vertonen”: Heiner Goebbels and the Music of Postmodern MemoryDavid BarnettChapter 15. The Technological Subject: Music, Media, and Memory in Stockhausen’s HymnenLarson PowellNotes on ContributorsIndex