The Lyric Myth of Voice : Civilizing Song in Enlightenment Italy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peritz, Jessica Gabriel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Opera--Italy--18th century.

Opera.

Singing--Italy--History--18th century.

Singing.

Voice (Philosophy)--History--18th century.

Voice (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : University of California Press, 2022.

Summary:

How did "voice" become a metaphor for selfhood in the Western imagination? The Lyric Myth of Voice situates the emergence of an ideological connection between voice and subjectivity in late eighteenth-century Italy, where long-standing political anxieties and new notions of cultural enlightenment collided in the mythical figure of the lyric poet-singer. Ultimately, music and literature together shaped the singing voice into a tool for civilizing modern Italian subjects. Drawing on a range of approaches and frameworks from historical musicology to gender studies, disability studies, anthropology, and literary theory, Jessica Gabriel Peritz shows how this ancient yet modern myth of voice attained interpretable form, flesh, and sound. The publisher gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the AMS 75 PAYS Fund of the American Musicological Society, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations and Tables

Editorial Principles

Introduction

1 The Poet Sings

2 The Orfeo Act

3 Civilizing Song

4 Domesticating the Tenth Muse

5 Sublime Suffering and the Good Mother

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Peritz, Jessica Gabriel The Lyric Myth of Voice

ISBN:

9780520380806

OCLC:

1343250529