{"product_id":"postopera-reinventing-the-voice-body","title":"Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body","description":"\u003cp\u003eBoth in opera studies and in most operatic works, the singing body is often taken for granted. In \u003ci\u003ePostopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 - \u003ci\u003eLa Belle et la Bête \u003c\/i\u003e(Philip Glass), \u003ci\u003eWriting to Vermeer \u003c\/i\u003e(Louis Andriessen, Peter Greenaway), \u003ci\u003eThree Tales \u003c\/i\u003e(Steve Reich, Beryl Korot), \u003ci\u003eOne \u003c\/i\u003e(Michel van der Aa), \u003ci\u003eHomeland \u003c\/i\u003e(Laurie Anderson), and \u003ci\u003eLa Commedia\u003c\/i\u003e (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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54234664501592,"sku":"9781472441034","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781472441034.jpg?v=1777257051","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/postopera-reinventing-the-voice-body","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}