Martha Feldman – Castrato / Trans: Rethinking Voice and Gender from the Twenty-First Century

Ústav hudební vědy FF UK srdečně zve na přednášku Marthy Feldman (The University of Chicago) a veřejný seminář s doktorandy v rámci přednáškového cyklu New Approaches in Music and Sound Studies.

Abstrakt

In this talk, transgender practices and discourses prompt new ways of conceiving of early modern castrati, onstage and off. Above all, the adjacency castrato / trans exposes cracks in our presuppositions about the conditions, aesthetics, and social structures in which castrati were embedded, helping to see the epistemic stakes in castrations for singing and to reimagine gendered vocal ontologies all told.

 

Foto: Valerie Booth O.