VOICE MACHINES
THE CASTRATO, THE CAT PIANO, AND OTHER STRANGE SOUNDS
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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 inv entionsincluding settler colonialism, emergent racialized worldviews, the printing press, gunpowder, and the telescopeparticipated in making castrati. In Bonnie Gordons revealing study, castrati serve as a critical provocation to ask questions about the voice, the limits of the ...Status: Available for online purchase in 10-15 days
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DetailsCHICAGO PRESS UNIVERSITY
2023
432 Pages
Format: Tela
ISBN: 9780226825144
Language: INGLÉSCategory: Music rehearsal