Voice, Slavery, and Race in Seventeenth-Century Florence

ISBN-13: 9780197646915 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 440 str.

Wilbourne

Recenzje

From one of the leading opera historians of her generation, Wilbourne's Voice, Slavery, and Race is a nuanced account of the reverberations between voice and race on the seventeenth-century stage. "Act I" reads the evidence of paintings, commedia dell'arte scenarios, libretti, and musical scores against a wealth of new documentation from Florentine archives, while "Act II" turns the spotlight on Giovannino Buonaccorsi, an enslaved Black soprano in the service of the Medici. In brilliant analyses that never skip a beat, Wilbourne pieces together a new and original history of racialized performances during the first century of Italian opera.

O autorze

Emily Wilbourne is Associate Professor of Musicology at Queens College and the Graduate Center in the City University of New York. She has previously published Seventeenth-Century Opera and the Sound of the Commedia dell'Arte (2016) and Lesbian/Opera: Elena Kats-Chernin's Iphis and Matricide: The Musical (2022); a collection of essays, co-edited with Suzanne G. Cusick, Acoustemologies in Contact: Sounding Subjects and Modes of Listening in Early Modernity (2021) is available via open access.