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Author Currid, Brian, author.

Title A national acoustics : music and mass publicity in Weimar and Nazi Germany / Brian Currid
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 279 pages) : illustrations
Contents German sounds, sounding German, and the acoustics of publicity -- Radio, mass publicity, and national fantasy -- The Schlager and the Singer film : organs of experience and the history of subjectivity -- "Musik" and "Musick" : "opus music" and mass culture -- "Songs the gypsy plays for us" : racial fantasy, music, and the state
Summary In A National Acoustics, Brian Currid investigates the transformations of music in mass culture from the Weimar Republic to the end of the Nazi regime. Currid illustrates the contradictions between Germany's social and cultural histories and how the technologies of recording were vital to the emergence of a national imaginary and exposed the fault lines in the contested terrain of mass communication
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-267) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Music and state -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
National socialism and music -- Germany -- Weimar (Thuringia)
Mass media and public opinion -- Germany
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- International.
MUSIC -- History & Criticism.
Mass media and public opinion
Music and state
National socialism and music
Germany
Germany -- Weimar (Thuringia)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816694198
0816694192