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Castrato as cyborg: premodern posthumanism & the epistemology of voice

Voice machines: the castrato, the cat piano, and other strange sounds, by Bonnie Gordon, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2023, 432 pp., $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780226825144

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