SOUNDS
Chapter 1:
When Songs Became a Business
Chapter 2:
Making Hits
Chapter 3:
Music Without Musicians
Chapter 4
The Traffic in Voices
Chapter 5
Musical Properties
Chapter 6
Perfect Pitch
Chapter 7
The Black Swan
Chapter 8
The Musical Soundscape of Modernity
Epilogue
SELLING SOUNDS
Chapter 4: The Traffic in Voices
Here’s a recording of Caruso singing “E Lucevan le stelle” from Puccini’s Tosca. As noted in the opening of the chapter, the writer A. J. Liebling and others considered Caruso a singer of superhuman abilities:
Caruso as Cavaradossi in Tosca