Nazi soundscapes : sound, technology and urban space in Germany, 1933-1945 / Carolyn Birdsall.

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Birdsall, Carolyn.

Title & Author:

Nazi soundscapes : sound, technology and urban space in Germany, 1933-1945 / Carolyn Birdsall.

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Description:

272 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
This book is published in print and through the online OAPEN library, www.oapen.org -- Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-254) and indexes.
Affirmative resonances in urban space -- The festivalisation of the everyday -- Mobilising sound for the nation at war -- Cinema as a Gesamtkunstwerk? -- Afterword: Echoes of the past.
Also available in electronic format.

Summary:

"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 Düsseldorf, 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 manipulating mediated sounds and the spaces of listening reception, whether in the home, workplace, the cinema, public rituals or with wartime siren systems. The study revises visualist notions of social control, and reveals the disciplinary functions of listening (as eavesdropping) as well as the sonic dimensions to exclusion and violence during Nazism. An essential title for everyone interested in the links between German political culture, audiovisual media and urban history, Nazi Soundscapes provides a fascinating analysis of the cultural significance of sound between the 1920s and early 1940s."--Publisher's website.

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ISBN:

9789089644268 (pbk.)
9089644261 (pbk.)
(pdf)
9789048516322
(ePub)
9789048516339
9048516323
9790000000000

Subject:

BMBF-Statusseminar
Propaganda Germany History 20th century.
Mass media and propaganda Germany History 20th century.
Social control Germany History 20th century.
Communication Psychological aspects.
Propagande Allemagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Médias et propagande Allemagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Contrôle social Allemagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Communication Aspect psychologique.
Mass media and propaganda.
Propaganda.
Social control.
Massenkultur
Großveranstaltung
Drittes Reich
Audiovisuelle Medien
Stadt
Nationaal-socialisme.
Massamedia.
Germany.
Duitsland.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 282278
Call No.: BIB 219660
Status: Available

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