James
Davies
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226 Morrison Hall
(510) 643-6233
email: jqd@berkeley.edu
James Davies James was born in Cape Town. He took his first degree (majoring in performance) in Johannesburg and moved to the University of Cambridge, UK, to undertake his Ph.D. His latest research involves the cultural history of performance in the 1820s and 30s: shifting conceptions of musical hands and reflex action, notions of the voice in operatic singing, and the emerging discourse on nervousness in 'electric performance'.
Recent Publications: “Julia’s Gift: the social life of scores, ca. 1830” in Journal of the Royal Musical Association (2006). “Melodramatic Possessions: South Africa, The Flying Dutchman and the Imperial Stage,” The Opera Quarterly (2005). “’Veluti in Speculum’ the twilight of the castrato” in Cambridge Opera Journal (2005). “Dancing the Symphonic: Beethoven-Bochsa’s Symphonie pastorale” in 19th-Century Music (2003).
Papers Presented: “’Gautier’s Diva,’ Staging the Feminine: The Arts of the Prima Donna, 1720-1920,” Network Symposium, University of Leeds, 14-16 July 2006. “This dispersed sense of woman”, Bristol University Music Department Colloquia, 16 February 2006. “’Veluti in Speculum’: the twilight of the castrato,” Annual Conference of the Royal Musical Association, Manchester University, 4-6 November 2005. “South Africa in the Melodramatic Imagination,” Music and Inter-Cultural Contact in the Early Modern Period, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 18 June 2005. “The Malibran-Sontag Stereotype,” Professional Identity and the Female Singer, University of Southampton, 21 February 2004. “The Migration of the Dutchman,” The Migration of Ideas, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, 25-27 September 2004. “Melodramatic Possessions: South Africa and the Imperial Stage,” Music Faculty Colloquium, Cambridge University, 27 November 2003.
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