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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:A National Acoustics: Music and Mass Publicity in Weimar and Nazi Germanyby Brian Currid
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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. <BR>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 music--the Schlager (or "hit"), so-called gypsy music, and jazz--he offers a complex view of how they played a part in the creation of German culture. <BR>"A National Acoustics" contributes to a new understanding of what constitutes the public sphere. In doing so, it illustrates the contradictions between Germany's 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. <BR>Brian Currid is an independent scholar who lives in Berlin. Book News Annotation:Currid aims to demystify stereotypes of the musical culture of
Germany during the Weimar and Nazi periods. He provides new ways of
thinking about the role of music in mass culture and also analyzes
how listening took place through radio, recordings, and films from
1924-1945. He focuses less on major figures and more on a study of
the function of music in society. Using films and illustrated
journals, specific topics he considers are film depictions of radio,
the concept of the hit song, the relationship between serious and
popular music, and race and gypsy music. Currid is a freelance writer
and translator who has taught music and media studies at universities
in Germany.
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