Paperback / softback. New. An exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries. It shows that the entire foundation of Western classical singing, culminating in bel canto, was birthed from an unlikely and historically unique set of desires, public and private, aesthetic, economic, and political. ISBN 0520292448 9780520292444 [GB]

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Oakland University of California Press 2016 Trade paperback New in new dust jacket.

Univ of California Pr, Date: 2016. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 421 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.50 inches. 2016. Univ of California Pr ISBN 0520292448 9780520292444 [GB]