@article{2014,title={A TALE OF TRANSFORMATİON FROM ANGELİC TO UNEARTHLY BEING: CASTRATOS},abstractNode={Castratos are singers that have important influence on Bel Canto era. In this period, dominant role that castratos have played in singing field has influenced composer’s vocal writing practice and other singer’s singing style and techniques diagnostically and, determined aesthetics rules of singing art. In last years there are some objections opposing the explanations about the reason of popularity of castrato singers that have stated for a long time and based on the vocal potential of these singers. Although they have not rejected vocal capacity of castratos, these objections claim that the basic reason of theirs popularity was some chacteristics that they possessed corporealy. This study follows changes in definition ways of castraos historically and tries to clarify sociocultural reasons of these changes.},author={Şahin SARUHAN},year={2014},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science}}