A national acoustics : music and mass publicity in Weimar and Nazi Germany /

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 e...

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Author / Creator: Currid, Brian (Author)
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2006.
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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.
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.
Item Description:Print version record.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 279 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-267) and index.
ISBN:9780816694198
0816694192