Description |
xviii, 173 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Series |
Ashgate interdisciplinary studies in opera
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Ashgate interdisciplinary studies in opera.
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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.
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Operas. |
Chronological Term |
21st century |
Subject |
Operas -- 20th century -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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Chronological Term |
20th century |
Subject |
Opera -- 21st century.
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Opera. |
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Opera -- 20th century.
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Operas -- Philosophy and aesthetics. |
Chronological Term |
1900 - 2099 |
ISBN |
9781472441034 (hardcover) (alkaline paper) |
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1472441036 (hardcover) (alkaline paper) |
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9781472441041 (ebook) |
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1472441044 (ebook) |
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9781472441058 (epub) |
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1472441052 (epub) |
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