We are delighted to announce the first Music History/Theory Workshop of 2012-13.

Martha Feldman, Mabel Greene Myers Professor of Music and the Humanities in the College, will present the first chapter of her upcoming book on Wednesday, October 10 at 4:30 PM in Regenstein library (JRL) 264.

ABSTRACT:

This is the first of six chapters from my Bloch Lectures at The University of California, Berkeley, given in fall 2007 and being submitted this term to the University of California Press for their Bloch series (with stalwart help from my research assistant Peter Shultz). The book is entitled The Castrato: Reflections on Natures and Kinds. The first chapter, which you have here, forms a pair with the second, which you don’t. Both deal with issues of reproduction, understood in the broadest anthropological and historical sense, with the second chapter taking the argument toward precise examples and analyses thereof in the realm of the lived lives of castrati from the 17th and 18th centuries.

You can download the pre-circulated chapter and supplementary materials here. (If you do not have the password, or wish to be added to the MHTW mailing list, please contact one of the student coordinators).

Refreshments are provided. We look forward to seeing you there!

Marcy and Dan

 

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Those needing additional assistance to attend this event should contact one of the student coordinators, Marcelle Pierson (mcpierson@uchicago.edu) or Dan Wang (dyw@uchicago.edu).