weimar germany national acoustics

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A National Acoustics: Music and Mass Publicity in Weimar and Nazi Germany
Brian Currid

Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2006

A sound track of Germany in the early twentieth century might conjure military music and the voice of Adolf Hitler rising above a cheering crowd. In A National Acoustics , Brian Currid challenges this reductive characterization by investigating the transformations of music in mass culture from the Weimar Republic to the end of the Nazi regime. Offering a nuanced analysis of how publicity was constructed through radio programming, print media, ...