The Lyric Myth of Voice

Civilizing Song in Enlightenment Italy
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-520-38079-0
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 238 mm x 160 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Peritz, Jessica Gabriel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Opernmusik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikpädagogik, Gesangspädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Jessica Gabriel Peritz is Assistant Professor of Music and Affiliated Faculty in Italian Studies and Early Modern Studies at Yale University.