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Sound Matters: Essays on the Acoustics of German Culture

Sound Matters: Essays on the Acoustics of German Culture

Alter, Nora M.
Koepnick, Lutz

Paperback

General SociologyWorld Music

ISBN10: 157181437X
ISBN13: 9781571814371
Publisher: Berghahn Books Inc
Published: Dec 1 2005
Pages: 266
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The sounds of music and the German language have played a significant role in the developing symbolism of the German nation. In light of the historical division of Germany into many disparate political entities and regional groups, German artists and intellectuals of the 19th and early 20th centuries conceived of musical and linguistic dispositions as the nation's most palpable common ground. According to this view, the peculiar sounds of German music and of the German language provided a direct conduit to national identity, to the deepest recesses of the German soul. So strong is this legacy of sound is still prevalent in modern German culture that philosopher Peter Sloterdijk, in a recent essay, did not even hesitate to describe post-wall Germany as an acoustical body.

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