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6 - The Domestic Diva: Toward an Operatic History of the Telephone

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2016

By
Lydia Goehr
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Karen Henson
Karen Henson
Affiliation:
City University of New York
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Technology and the Diva
Sopranos, Opera, and Media from Romanticism to the Digital Age
 , pp. 104 - 123
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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