Nazi soundscapes : sound, technology and urban space in Germany, 1933-1945 /
Carolyn Birdsall.
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, (c)2012.
- 1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations, maps
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
Many images of Nazi propaganda are universally recognizable, and symbolize the ways that the National Socialist party manipulated German citizens. What might an examination of the party's various uses of sound reveal? In Nazi Soundscapes, Carolyn Birdsall offers an in-depth analysis of the cultural significance of sound and new technologies like radio and loudspeaker systems during the rise of the National Socialist party in the 1920s to the end of World War II. Focusing specifically on the urban soundscape of Düsseldorf, this study examines both the production and reception of sound-based propaganda in the public and private spheres. Birdsall provides a vivid account of sound as a key instrument of social control, exclusion, and violence during Nazi Germany, and she makes a persuasive case for the power of sound within modern urban history.
9789048516322 9048516323 9781283698368
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei.
Propaganda--History--Germany--20th century. Mass media and propaganda--History--Germany--20th century. Social control--History--Germany--20th century.
History Nazi Urban Cities Media Technology Propaganda Geschiedenis Soundscapes Germany Radio Listening Popular Music