Explores sonic events and auditory experiences in German-speaking contexts from the Middle Ages to the digital age, opening up new understandings.

List of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroductionRolf J. GoebelPart I. Sonic Practices from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century1: Soundscapes in Medieval German LiteratureAlbrecht Classen2: A German Dance: Music, Mesmerism, and the Glass ArmonicaLawrence Kramer3: Healthy Throats, German Sounds: Women's Vocal Development and Expertise in German Soundscapes of the Long Nineteenth CenturyJosephine HoegaertsPart II. Rediscovering the Sounds of Modernism4: Heidegger: A Little Hint on How to ListenJames M. Kopf5: New Hearing: Soundscapes of Literary ModernismFrieder von Ammon6: Tragic Silence and Heroic Clamor: Sound Worlds and Constructed Ethnographies in Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen (1924)Daniel ShererPart III. Listening to the Unbearable: The Sounds of National Socialism and the Holocaust7: Hitler's Voice: Media and Politics of EmbodimentTyler Whitney8: "The whole language was a scream": The German Language During the Seizure of the JewsSara Ann SewellPart IV. After the Catastrophe: Sounds in Postwar Germany and Beyond9: Revisiting the Soundscapes of Postwar West German Radio DramaCaroline A. Kita10: Jazz and Its Effect on Politics and Modernity as Presented in German Newsreels and Documentaries of the 1960sSigrun Lehnert11: On the Air: Clandestine Radiophonic Protest Groups in Italy, Switzerland, and Germany, 1976-77Anna Bromley12: Kittler's SoundLarson Powell13: Clearing the Throat, Stumbling, and Coughing: An Anthropology of the Sonic Corpus According to Carlfriedrich ClausHolger SchulzePart V. Sounds of the Present14: Carsten Nicolai's Art of Disturbance: Sound, Science, and InterferenceLutz Koepnick15: Echoes of the Past: Sound in the History MuseumDaniel Morat16: (Post)Digital Sounds: Acoustic Experiments in the Age of Algorithmic ProcessesChristiane HeibachPart Vi. Epilogue17: The Sound of Pine Needles Falling: The Art of Max NeuhausYehuda SafranSelect Bibliography and List of Further ReadingNotes on the ContributorsIndex