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

by Stacy Holman Jones

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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.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0759106592

ISBN13:9780759106598

Release Date:June 2007

Publisher:Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury

Length:228 Pages

Weight:0.82 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"

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