Torch Singing: Performing Resistance and Desire from Billie Holiday to Edith Piaf (Ethnographic Alternatives)

Torch Singing: Performing Resistance and Desire from Billie Holiday to Edith Piaf (Ethnographic Alternatives)

by StacyHolman (Author)

Synopsis

With an ethnographer's eye, Stacy Holman Jones provides a cultural critique of torch singing-describing the genre as a rich drama of passiveness, deception, desire, and resistance.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 228
Publisher: AltaMira Press,U.S.
Published: 28 May 2006

ISBN 10: 0759106592
ISBN 13: 9780759106598