"Even if you've never heard of the 1954 Maria Callas album, even if you neither know or care about her or opera, this book is entrancing." Greil Marcus, Real Life Top Ten, Los Angeles Review of Books 1/2022

“Both accessible and rigorous” this book is “a meditation on Callas in the vein of Alex Ross’s best public scholarship, merged with the personal analytical style of authors like Catherine Clement and Philip Gossett.” IAWM, P. Alderman Award Committee 2022

 

 

 

GINGER DELLENBAUGH is a music historian who has taught and written about music and politics, the cultural techniques of the human voice, and vernacular notation systems. She holds a BMus in Vocal Performance from Vanderbilt University, an MA in Liberal Studies from The New School for Social Research, and a PhD in Music History from Yale University. As a trained opera singer and songwriter/composer, she performed for several years in Europe and the United States. Her research addresses two distinct areas: the ongoing tradition of idiomatic systems of music notation, inscription and visualization, and the history of vocal ownership, imitation and appropriation. She is currently working on a project about the effects of AI and generative technologies on creative authorship, singing voices, and the music market.  Ginger lives in New York City and Vienna, Austria. 

 

Selected Publications