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

, by Holman Jones, Stacy

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ISBN: 9780759106581 | 0759106584
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 7/8/2007

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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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Interpreter of lies	p. 1
The scene of desire	p. 5
Sing me a torch song	p. 11
The way you haunt my dreams	p. 31
Hearing voices	p. 67
Love's wounds	p. 103
Hopeful openness	p. 139
Circular breathing	p. 167
Music for torching	p. 187
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Torch Singing Performing Resistance and Desire from Billie Holiday to Edith Piaf

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