Chanter au singulier : esthétiques et politiques de la voix romantique
Singing in the singular: aesthetic and policy of a romantic voice

Summary/Abstract: The article proposes a reflection concerning the connections between the voicerepresentations or vocal practices, worked out towards the end of the Enlightenmentperiod and in the first decades of the 19th century in the French cultural area, and thebirth of the socio-economic system characteristic of the bourgeois society. The paperfocuses, in particular, on political presuppositions – in the Aristotelian sense of the word« political » – on which all the uses of voice, both spoken and sung, are based. Theobjective of the study is to understand the status of voice and singing in the process ofcreation of a modern anthropology.

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