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9780759106598

Torch Singing Performing Resistance and Desire from Billie Holiday to Edith Piaf

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  • ISBN13:

    9780759106598

  • ISBN10:

    0759106592

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-06-28
  • Publisher: AltaMira Press
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Stacy Holman Jones is assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of South Florida.

Table of Contents

Interpreter of liesp. 1
The scene of desirep. 5
Sing me a torch songp. 11
The way you haunt my dreamsp. 31
Hearing voicesp. 67
Love's woundsp. 103
Hopeful opennessp. 139
Circular breathingp. 167
Music for torchingp. 187
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