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"James Q. Davies is Associate Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of Romantic Anatomies of Performance (University of California Press, 2014), and co-editor with Ellen Lockhart of Sound Knowledge: Music and Science in London, 1789-1851 (forthcoming with University of Chicago Press). James grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa. Before arriving in California, he was a Junior Research Fellow in Music at Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge. He wrote his dissertation on the year “1829” whilst a student at the same college. Articles and chapters on romantic castrati, musical gift albums (winner of the Jerome Roche Prize in 2007), Chopin’s nervous system, pre-Wagnerian colonial melodramas, danced Beethoven symphonies, township opera, and the history of the concept of the diva appear The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Century (Oxford, 2011), Keyboard Perspectives (2010), Opera Quarterly (2012 and 2006), Royal Musical Association (2006), Cambridge Opera Journal (2005 and forthcoming), and 19th-Century Music (2003). Short essays on vocal belonging and objectivity are forthcoming in the Journal of the American Musicological Society and Representations."