Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body |
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| Author:
| Novak, Jelena |
| Series title: | Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4724-4103-4 |
| Publication Date: | May 2015 |
| Publisher: | Routledge
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $165.00 |
Book Description:
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Both in opera studies and in most operatic works, the singing body is taken for granted. Jelena Novak reintroduces an awareness of the physicality of the singing body to opera studies. Arguing that the body-voice relationship itself is a producer of meaning, she furthermore posits this relationship as one of the major driving forces in recent opera. She takes as her focus six contemporary operas - La Belle et la Bête, Writing to Vermeer, Three Tales, One, Homeland and La Commedia and...
More DescriptionBoth in opera studies and in most operatic works, the singing body is taken for granted. Jelena Novak reintroduces an awareness of the physicality of the singing body to opera studies. Arguing that the body-voice relationship itself is a producer of meaning, she furthermore posits this relationship as one of the major driving forces in recent opera. She takes as her focus six contemporary operas - La Belle et la Bête, Writing to Vermeer, Three Tales, One, Homeland and La Commedia and dissects the singing body as a set of rules, protocols, effects, strategies.