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100	1		_aGordon, Bonnie, _d1968- _eautor _9164325
245	1	0	_aVoice machines : _bthe castrato, the cat piano, and other strange sounds / _cBonnie Gordon
264		1	_aChicago ; _aLondon : _bThe University of Chicago Press, _c2023
300			_aix, 416 pàgines : _bil·lustracions ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_asense mediació _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolum _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aInclou bibliografia (pàgines [367]-400) i índex
520			_a"An exploration of the castrato as a critical provocation to explore the relationships between sound, music, voice instrument, and machine.Italian courts and churches began employing castrato singers in the late sixteenth century. By the eighteenth century, the singers occupied a celebrity status on the operatic stage. Constructed through surgical alteration and further modified by rigorous training, castrati inhabited human bodies that had been “mechanized” to produce sounds in ways that unmechanized bodies could not. The voices of these technologically enhanced singers, with their unique timbre, range, and strength, contributed to a dramatic expansion of musical vocabulary and prompted new ways of imagining sound, the body, and personhood. Connecting sometimes bizarre snippets of history, this multi-disciplinary book moves backward and forward in time, deliberately troubling the meaning of concepts like “technology” and “human.” Voice Machines attends to the ways that early modern encounters and inventions—including settler colonialism, emergent racialized worldviews, the printing press, gunpowder, and the telescope—participated in making castrati. In Bonnie Gordon’s revealing study, castrati serve as a critical provocation to ask questions about the voice, the limits of the body, and the stories historians tell." -- Pàgina web editorial
650		0	_aCastrats _yItàlia _xHistòria. _zItàlia _2lemac _9164326
650		0	_aCastrats _xHistòria _2lemac _9164327
650		0	_aCant _zItàlia _xHistòria _yS. XVI. _2lemac _9164328
650		0	_aCant _zItàlia _xHistòria _yS. XVII. _2lemac _9164329
650		0	_aCant _zItàlia _xHistòria _yS. XVIII _2lemac _9164330
650		0	_aMúsica i tecnologia _zItàlia _x Història _yS. XVII _2lemac _9164331
650		0	_aCultura italiana _yS. XVII _9164332
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