The Diva's Mouth: Body, Voice, and Prima Donna Politics

by Susan J. Leonardi, Rebbecca A Pope, Rebecca A. Pope

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813523044
• ISBN13: 9780813523040
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"