The Diva's Mouth - Susan J. Leonardi, Rebecca A. Pope

The Diva's Mouth

Body, Voice, and Prima Donna Politics
Buch | Softcover
312 Seiten
1996
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-2304-0 (ISBN)
39,25 inkl. MwSt
Exploring the myriad roles the diva has played in masculinist, feminist, and ""queer"" imaginations, this text looks at their omnipresence since the 18th century. The divas discussed are from opera, film, literature and pop music, and flirt with and fulfil the fantasy of woman with a voice.
Like the divine, divas, it seems, are omnipresent. From the sirens to Madonna, from castrati to Callas, from opera stage to drag shows to TV commercials, from George Eliot to writers of detective fiction, the diva has been worshipped, feared, maligned, parodied, and appropriated. The Diva's Mouth: Bodies, Voice, and Prima Donna Politics examines how and why, from the eighteenth century to the present, divas have been talked about with so much passion and written up, down, and over with so much ambiguity and contradiction. The book explores the myriad roles the diva plays in masculinist, feminist, and queer imaginations--in opera itself and in other fictions, films, and fantasies, including the divas' (and the authors') own. Finally, it examines how and why pop and "pomo" singers, like Madonna, Annie Lennox, and Diamanda Galas, in very explicit ways both flirt with and fling off the fantasy of the woman with a voice. In this very witty and highly readable book, the authors tell everything you always wanted to know and make you want to know even more about the diva.

SUSAN J. LEONARDI is an associate professor of English at the University of Maryland at College Park. She is the author of Dangerous by Degrees: The Women of Somerville College (Rutgers University Press). REBECCA A. POPE is an assistant professor of English at George Washington University.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 30.11.1996
Zusatzinfo 12 black & white illustrations
Verlagsort New Brunswick NJ
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 510 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport Tanzen / Tanzsport
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 0-8135-2304-4 / 0813523044
ISBN-13 978-0-8135-2304-0 / 9780813523040
Zustand Neuware
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