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Die friedliche Revolution von 1989 und die Deutsche Wiedervereinigung sind als »Wende« in die Alltagssprache eingegangen. Wie wurde die Wende erlebt? Welche Folgen hatte sie? Gibt es für sie einen Abschluss, wie das Wort impliziert, oder bleibt die Wende ohne Ende? In Beiträgen aus Ost und West präsentiert der Band eine unbefangene und kontroverse Bilanz der Wiedervereinigung und zeigt unterschiedliche Perspektiven auf. Das breite Themenspektrum reicht vom demografischen Wandel und rechtsextremen Einstellungen über Mediennutzung bis hin zur Ostalgie. Mit Beiträgen von Albrecht Bemmann, Hendrik Berth, Heinrich Best, Elmar Brähler, Peter Brandt, Friedhelm Debus, Oliver Decker, Friedrich Dieckmann, Peter Förster, Harald J. Freyberger, Thomas Hanf, Katrin Hirte, Johannes Kiess, Thomas Lampert, Karena Leppert, Andreas Maercker, Jürgen Pretzsch, Olaf Reis, Rolf Reißig, Alexander Rommel, Axel Salheiser, Katja Salomo, Stefanie Seeling, Annette Simon, Carsten Spitzer, Yve Stöbel-Richter, Wolf Wagner, Markus Zenger, Thomas Ziese und Anja Zimmermann

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. How do keyboards make music playable? Drawing on theories of media, systems, and cultural techniques, Keys to Play spans Greek myth and contemporary Japanese digital games to chart a genealogy of musical play and its animation via improvisation, performance, and recreation. As a paradigmatic digital interface, the keyboard forms a field of play on which the book's diverse objects of inquiry—from clavichords to PCs and eighteenth-century musical dice games to the latest rhythm-action titles—enter into analogical relations. Remapping the keyboard's topography by way of Mozart and Super Mario, who head an expansive cast of historical and virtual actors, Keys to Play invites readers to unlock ludic dimensions of music that are at once old and new.

Germans to America provides both genealogists and researchers of family history with the first extensive, indexed source of German-surname immigrants who came to all ports in the United States between 1850 and 1893. This period witnessed one of the highest rates of German emigration in the nineteenth century. The series reproduces information from the original ship manifest schedules, or passenger lists, filed by all vessels entering U.S. ports. All volumes are arranged in chronological order by each ship's date of arrival. For every passenger list, the following information is provided: ship name, port of departure, port of arrival, date of arrival, and list of German-surname passengers. Ships that departed from German ports or carried passengers who declared themselves to be of German origin are included, with full name, age, sex, occupation, and, when this information is given, country, province or village of origin provided for each emigrant. One of the most important features of this series is the complete index of names at the end of every volume, making it easy to find a particular individual or family name. Germans to America may be ordered by individual volume. Standing orders, which receive a 10% discount, are also welcomed.