CONTENTS

     Acknowledgments

     Introduction

1   Berlin Soundscapes of Defeat and Occupation

2   Occupied Music: The Berlin Philharmonic and the American Military

3   Rubble Opera after 1945: East Berlin’s Staatsoper and West Berlin’s Städtische Oper

4   Embodied and Disembodied Voices: Listening to Sonic Ruins

5   Berlin 1945: Toward a Ruin Aesthetic in Music

     Conclusion

     Bibliography

     Index