Voice, Slavery, and Race In Seventeenth-Century Florence.

Wilbourne studies the significant presence of foreign and racially marked individuals in Medici Florence, many of whom worked as slaves. The book shows their impact on the history of Western music and sound. With an introduction, appendix, bibliography, and index. Music examples. Color and black & white plates. Tables.

xxiii, 491 p.; 24 cm.
Cloth

Language: English
ISBN: 0197646913
ISBN13: 9780197646915