Author: Charles Ancillon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eunuchs
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Italian Love
Author: Charles Ancillon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eunuchs
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eunuchs
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Italian Love
Author: Charles Ancillon
Publisher:
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
The Castrato
Author: Martha Feldman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520292448
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Castrato is a nuanced exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries. It shows that the entire foundation of Western classical singing, culminating in bel canto, was birthed from an unlikely and historically unique set of desires, public and private, aesthetic, economic, and political. In Italy, castration for singing was understood through the lens of Catholic blood sacrifice as expressed in idioms of offering and renunciation and, paradoxically, in satire, verbal abuse, and even the symbolism of the castrato’s comic cousin Pulcinella. Sacrifice in turn was inseparable from the system of patriarchy—involving teachers, patrons, colleagues, and relatives—whereby castrated males were produced not as nonmen, as often thought nowadays, but as idealized males. Yet what captivated audiences and composers—from Cavalli and Pergolesi to Handel, Mozart, and Rossini—were the extraordinary capacities of castrato voices, a phenomenon ultimately unsettled by Enlightenment morality. Although the castrati failed to survive, their musicality and vocality have persisted long past their literal demise.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520292448
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Castrato is a nuanced exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries. It shows that the entire foundation of Western classical singing, culminating in bel canto, was birthed from an unlikely and historically unique set of desires, public and private, aesthetic, economic, and political. In Italy, castration for singing was understood through the lens of Catholic blood sacrifice as expressed in idioms of offering and renunciation and, paradoxically, in satire, verbal abuse, and even the symbolism of the castrato’s comic cousin Pulcinella. Sacrifice in turn was inseparable from the system of patriarchy—involving teachers, patrons, colleagues, and relatives—whereby castrated males were produced not as nonmen, as often thought nowadays, but as idealized males. Yet what captivated audiences and composers—from Cavalli and Pergolesi to Handel, Mozart, and Rossini—were the extraordinary capacities of castrato voices, a phenomenon ultimately unsettled by Enlightenment morality. Although the castrati failed to survive, their musicality and vocality have persisted long past their literal demise.
Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England
Author: Alanna Skuse
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108843611
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Implements stories of surgical alteration to consider how early modern individuals conceived the relationship between body, mind, and self.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108843611
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Implements stories of surgical alteration to consider how early modern individuals conceived the relationship between body, mind, and self.
A History of Celibacy
Author: Elizabeth Abbott
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684849437
Category : Celibacy
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
What causes people to give up sex? Abbott's provocative and entertaining exploration of celibacy through the ages debunks traditional notions about celibacy--a practice that reveals much about human sexual desires and drives.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684849437
Category : Celibacy
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
What causes people to give up sex? Abbott's provocative and entertaining exploration of celibacy through the ages debunks traditional notions about celibacy--a practice that reveals much about human sexual desires and drives.
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present
Author: Peter Charle Remondino
Publisher:
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Category : Circumcision
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Circumcision
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Catena Librorum Tacendorum
Author: Henry Spencer Ashbee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Erotic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Erotic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
The Awakening of China
Author: William Alexander Parsons Martin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The Jewish Encyclopedia
Author: Isidore Singer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
V.I:Aach-Apocalyptic lit.--V.2: Apocrypha-Benash--V.3:Bencemero-Chazanuth--V.4:Chazars-Dreyfus--V.5: Dreyfus-Brisac-Goat--V.6: God-Istria--V.7:Italy-Leon--V.8:Leon-Moravia--V.9:Morawczyk-Philippson--V.10:Philippson-Samoscz--V.11:Samson-Talmid--V.12: Talmud-Zweifel.
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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
V.I:Aach-Apocalyptic lit.--V.2: Apocrypha-Benash--V.3:Bencemero-Chazanuth--V.4:Chazars-Dreyfus--V.5: Dreyfus-Brisac-Goat--V.6: God-Istria--V.7:Italy-Leon--V.8:Leon-Moravia--V.9:Morawczyk-Philippson--V.10:Philippson-Samoscz--V.11:Samson-Talmid--V.12: Talmud-Zweifel.
The Transsexual Empire
Author: Janice G. Raymond
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780807762721
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This book will be used as a text in women's studies, psychology, sociology, technology and public policy, as well as by medical students, law students, and all who have an interest in feminist issues.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780807762721
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This book will be used as a text in women's studies, psychology, sociology, technology and public policy, as well as by medical students, law students, and all who have an interest in feminist issues.