{"product_id":"sound-matters-nora-m-alter-9781571814364","title":"Sound Matters: Essays on the Acoustics of German Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e This volume gathers the work of scholars from the US, Germany, and the United Kingdom to explore the role of sound in modern and postmodern German cultural production. Working across established disciplines and methodological divides, the essays of \u003ci\u003eSound Matters\u003c\/i\u003e investigate the ways in which texts, artists, and performers in all kinds of media have utilized sonic materials in order to enforce or complicate dominant notions of German cultural and national identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nora M. Alter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1571814361\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781571814364\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Berghahn Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 266\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Library Binding\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d","brand":"Nora M. Alter","offers":[{"title":"Library Binding","offer_id":47637260796159,"sku":"9781571814364","price":135.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3aa55782-a514-4ebf-9280-9deb7a792614.jpg?v=1765115032","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sound-matters-nora-m-alter-9781571814364","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}