The Tenor: A Cultural History

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Also available with worldwide delivery at amazon.co.uk One hundred years after the death of Enrico Caruso, and the births of Franco Corelli, Giuseppe Di Stefano, and Mario Lanza, Matthew Boyden’s monumental study traces the influence of economics, politics, religion, linguistics, acoustics, advertising, sexuality, art, architecture, literature, theatre, film, recording, television, celebrity, and four centuries of music on the evolution, sound and significance of the tenor as a voice, a meme, and a performing tradition. The A Cultural History is the most comprehensive, original and far-reaching book of its kind ever written.