Voice, Slavery, and Race in Seventeenth-Century Florence

by Emily Wilbourne

Grounded in new archival research documenting a significant presence of foreign and racially-marked individuals in Medici Florence, this book argues for the relevance of such individuals to the history of Western music and for the importance of sound-particularly musical and vocal sounds-to systems of racial and ethnic difference. Many of the individuals discussed in these pages were subject to enslavement or conditions of unfree labor; some labored...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197646913
• ISBN13: 9780197646915
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.5" x 6.6" x 8.7"