Castrato, the: reflections on natures and kinds
Auteur :
Feldman, Martha
Éditeur :
University of California Press
ISBN :
9780520279490
Date de publication :
20 févr. 2015
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 3,6 cm
Poids :
816 g
Format :
Cloth over boards
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
An exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries. This book shows that the entire foundation of Western classical singing, culminating in bel canto, was birthed from an unlikely and historically set of desires, public and private, aesthetic, economic, and political.