Introduction to the study of German sounds : tuning in to the aural ether / Florence Feiereisen and Alexandra Merley Hill
section 1. New sounds in the 20th century : sounds, noise, silence
Escaping the urban din : a comparative study of Theodor Lessing's Antilärmverein (1908) and Maximilian Negwer's Ohropax (1907/8) / John Goodyear
When only the ears are awake : Günter Eich and the acoustical unconscious / Robert Ryder
section 2. Defining space through sound : battlefields and concert halls
The sonic mindedness of the Great War : viewing history through auditory lenses / Yaron Jean
From seat cushions to formulae : understanding spatial acoustics in physics and architecture / Sabine von Fischer
section 3. East and West : sounds in the shadow of the wall
From the boiler room to the hotel room : sound and space in Wolfgang Hilbig's Das Provisorium (2000) / Curtis Swope
Berlin sounds : audible cartography of a formerly divided city / Nicole Dietrich
section 4. The politics of sound : walls with ears
Sound and socialist identity : negotiating the musical soundscape in the Stalinist GDR / David Tompins
Audibility is a trap : aural panopticon in The lives of others (2006) / Christiane Beuermann
section 5. Soundscapers of the millennium : sound art and music sounds
Sound art : new only in name : a selected history of German sound works from the last century / Brett M. Van Hoesen and Jean-Paul Perrotte
Ghettos, hoods, blocks : the sounds of German space in rap and hip-hop / Maria Stehle.
Germany in the loud twentieth century : an introduction. ISBN 9780199759385. Published by Oxford University Press in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.