Torch Singing Performing Resistance and Desire from Billie Holiday to Edith Piaf
, by Holman Jones, StacyNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780759106598 | 0759106592
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 6/28/2007
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.