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Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body (Paperback)
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Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body (Paperback)
Series: Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera
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Both in opera studies and in most operatic works, the singing body
is often taken for granted. In Postopera: Reinventing the
Voice-Body, Jelena Novak reintroduces an awareness of the
physicality of the singing body to opera studies. Arguing that the
voice-body 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 Bete (Philip Glass), Writing to Vermeer
(Louis Andriessen, Peter Greenaway), Three Tales (Steve Reich,
Beryl Korot), One (Michel van der Aa), Homeland (Laurie Anderson),
and La Commedia (Louis Andriessen, Hal Hartley) - which she terms
'postoperas'. These pieces are sites for creative exploration,
where the boundaries of the opera world are stretched. Central to
this is the impact of new media, a de-synchronization between image
and sound, or a redefinition of body-voice-gender relationships.
Novak dissects the singing body as a set of rules, protocols,
effects, and strategies. That dissection shows how the singing body
acts within the world of opera, what interventions it makes, and
how it constitutes opera's meanings.
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