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Author Novak, Jelena, 1974- author.

Title Postopera : reinventing the voice-body / Jelena Novak.

Publication Info. Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2015]
©2015

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Description xviii, 173 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Ashgate interdisciplinary studies in opera
Ashgate interdisciplinary studies in opera.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-163) and index.
Contents Focusing on body singing. Postopera and vocalic body ; Body-voice gap, postopera, and body/voice theory -- Voices beyond corporeality : performing singing as upgrading. Singing beyond the body : uniqueness, intruder, and prosthesis ; Monstrous singing : the politics of vocal existence -- Throwing the voice, catching the body : opera, ventriloquism, and de-synchronization. Operatizing the film : body without voice and voice without body ; Singing letters, multiplied bodies, and dissociated voice -- Singing gender as performance. Voice and gender standing apart ; Vocal drag, counter-castrato, and the scandal of the singing body -- Reinventing the vocalic body in postopera : conclusion.
Language English text.
Subject Operas -- 21st century -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Operas.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject Operas -- 20th century -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Opera -- 21st century.
Opera.
Opera -- 20th century.
Operas -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Chronological Term 1900 - 2099
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