{"title":"Martha Feldman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMartha Feldman\u003c\/strong\u003e offers profound explorations into the realms of music, culture, and performance. Her works, such as \u003cem\u003eCastrato Phantoms\u003c\/em\u003e, delve into historical and social nuances, bringing to life the complexities of artistic traditions and their cultural resonances.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect richly detailed narratives that illuminate the intersections of art, history, and identity. Feldman’s writing invites a thoughtful engagement with the arts, making her collection a compelling choice for those fascinated by cultural studies and the history of performance.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"castrato-phantoms-by-martha-feldman-9781945861130","title":"Castrato Phantoms","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA new mapping of castrato afterlives in modern Rome.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAround 1830, opera houses stopped using castrati, and Rome and the Vatican became home to their glorious singing, engineered by surgery and intensive vocal training. Castrati were long mired in secrecy, obfuscations, and lies about their origin and conditions, not least the last of them, Alessandro Moreschi. Musicologist Martha Feldman declines to accept these deep-seated mysteries and concealments. After a decade and more of digging through archives and family histories comes her exciting transdisciplinary and quasi-cinematic account of Moreschi, whose recordings preserve the only sonic trace of a solo castrato.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYet Moreschi’s story extends far beyond him. It opens up intrigues, politics, and histories of the Vatican, everyday histories of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Rome, the world of Roman opera, the city’s unique mélange of sacred and vernacular tropes, and representations of Rome by iconic film director Federico Fellini. Moreschi and Fellini turn out to have been related by marriage, but also to share synergies grounded in Rome’s persistent inclination to vernacularise the sacred. Far from telling of one anomalous figure, Feldman’s gripping history convinces readers that Moreschi, like Fellini, can be read as an improbable index of Roman consciousness, both during his own life and well beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67708784410860,"sku":"9781945861130","price":69.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781945861130-castrato-phantoms-1.jpg?v=1791836801"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/martha-feldman.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}