Torch singing : performing resistance and desire from Billie Holiday to Edith Piaf / Stacy Holman Jo...
Torch singing : performing resistance and desire from Billie Holiday to Edith Piaf / Stacy Holman Jo...
Torch singing : performing resistance and desire from Billie Holiday to Edith Piaf / Stacy Holman Jones.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
Lanham, Md. ; Plymouth : AltaMira Press, c2007.
Call Numbers
N782.42164/189
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
vii, 217 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Interpreter of lies -- The scene of desire -- Sing me a torch song -- The way you haunt my dreams -- Hearing voices -- Love's wounds -- Hopeful openness -- Circular breathing -- Music for torching.
Publication information
Publisher
Lanham, Md. ; Plymouth : AltaMira Press, c2007.
Place of Publication
Maryland
Date Published
c2007.
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Summary
"In this innovative book, Stacy Holman Jones presents torch singing as a much more complicated phenomenon than the familiar trope of a woman lamenting her victimhood. With an ethnographer's eye, she observes the bluesy torch singers, asking if they are possibly performing critiques of the very lyrics they are singing. From this perspective, we see...
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Full title
Torch singing : performing resistance and desire from Billie Holiday to Edith Piaf / Stacy Holman Jones.
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Ethnographic alternatives book series.
Ethnographic alternatives book series.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Call Numbers
N782.42164/189
Record Identifier
74VKRx7355Xl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKRx7355Xl
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ISBN
0759106592 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780759106581 (cloth : alk. paper)
0759106584 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780759106598 (pbk. : alk. paper)
DDC
782.42164082
MMS ID
991023288659702626
