Introduction

Sounds German?: Popular Music in Postwar Germany at the Crossroads of the National and Transnational

“…5 Building on this, Feiereisen and Hill's recent work asks "what does Germany sound like" and investigates music as but one instantiation of sound thereby accounting for different acoustic spaces and opening up the arena of German sound studies. 6 The importance of music and sounds to German Studies has increasingly become commonplace not only between the covers of such works, but also in formats such as the Music and Sound Studies Network of the German Studies Association (formed in 2013) and in the classroom as evinced by numerous publications in Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German.…”