GER 307 - Topics in German Culture and Society - The Culture of Acoustic Media

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Princeton University

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A survey of artworks and artifacts made for acoustic media--phonograph, radio, tape and digital recording--from the 1900s to the present day. Listening to recordings of radio plays, documentaries, avant-garde sound works and propaganda broadcasts, we will address formal and technical question--language and sound, performance and medium, liveness and recording, orality and textuality--while paying close attention to the political and cultural contexts from which texts emerge.

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0.00 - 4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.princeton.edu

Phone Number:

(609) 258-3000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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