Contributor
Parker, Roger, 1951- editor.
ImprintChicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Imprint2019
Description293 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm
Note:Introduction : London voices 1820-1840 : a "luminous guide" / Roger Parker and Susan Rutherford -- How the ballad singer lost her "woice" / Oskar Cox Jensen -- The traffic in voices : the exchange value of Italian opera in Giuseppe Mazzini's London / $r Mary Ann Smart -- Interpreting the Italian voice in London (and elsewhere) / Claudio Vellutini -- The castrato as creator : Velluti's voice in the London sheet-music market / Sarah Fuchs -- "The essence of nine trombones" : Luigi Lablache and models of masculinity in 1830s London / Sarah Hibberd -- Adelaide Kemble and the voice as means / Matildie Thom Wium -- On tongues and ears : divine voices in the modern metropolis / James Grande -- From dissent to community : the Sacred Harmonic Society and amateur choral singing in London / Wiebke Thormčahlen -- Foreign voices, performing Frenchness : Jenny Colon and the "French plays" in London / Kimberly White -- "Singer for the million" ; Henry Russell, popular song, and the solo recital / Susan Rutherford -- Vessels of flame : Letitia Elizabeth Landon and the improviser's voice / Melina Esse -- "Silver fork" novels and the place of voice / Cormac Newark -- Voice boxes / Ellen Lockhart.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"London, 1820. The British capital is a metropolis that overwhelms dwellers and visitors alike with constant exposure to all kinds of sensory stimulation. Over the next two decades, the city's tumult will reach new heights: as population expansion places different classes in dangerous proximity and ideas of political and social reform linger in the air, London begins to undergo enormous infrastructure change that will alter it forever. It is the London of this period that editors Roger Parker and Susan Rutherford pinpoint in this book, which chooses one broad musical category--voice--and engages with it through essays on music of the streets, theaters, opera houses, and concert halls; on the raising of voices in religious and sociopolitical contexts; and on the perception of voice in literary works and scientific experiments with acoustics. Emphasizing human subjects, this focus on voice allows the authors to explore the multifaceted issues that shaped London, from the anxiety surrounding the city's importance in the musical world at large to the changing vocal imaginations that permeated the epoch. Capturing the breadth of sonic stimulations and cultures available--and sometimes unavoidable--to residents at the time, London Voices, 1820-1840 sheds new light on music in Britain and the richness of London culture during this period." --Provided by publisher.
