{"product_id":"a-national-acoustics-music-and-mass-publicity-in-weimar-and-nazi-germany-9780816640423","title":"A National Acoustics: Music and Mass Publicity in Weimar and Nazi Germany","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Brian Currid\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History \u0026amp; Criticism - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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 \u003ci\u003eA National Acoustics\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Offering a nuanced analysis of how publicity was constructed through radio programming, print media, popular song, and film, Currid examines how German citizens developed an emotional investment in the nation and other forms of collectivity that were tied to the sonic experience. Reading in detail popular genres of music-the Schlager (or \"hit\"), so-called gypsy music, and jazz-he offers a complex view of how they played a part in the creation of German culture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eA National Acoustics\u003c\/i\u003e contributes to a new understanding of what constitutes the public sphere. In doing so, it illustrates the contradictions between Germany's social and cultural histories and how the technologies of recording not only were vital to the emergence of a national imaginary but also exposed the fault lines in the contested terrain of mass communication. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Brian Currid is an independent scholar who lives in Berlin.","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47613094822039,"sku":"9780816640423","price":3293.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780816640423.webp?v=1775082582","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-national-acoustics-music-and-mass-publicity-in-weimar-and-nazi-germany-9780816640423","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}