The Lyric Myth of VoiceHow did "voice" become a metaphor for selfhood in the Western imagination? The Lyric Myth of Voice situates the emergence of an ideological connection between voice and subjectivity in late eighteenth century Italy, where long standing political anxieties and new notions of cultural enlightenment collided in the mythical figure of the lyric poet singer. Drawing on a range of approaches and frameworks from historical musicology to gender studies,