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:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0759106584

ISBN13:9780759106581

Release Date:July 2007

Publisher:Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury

Length:228 Pages

Weight:1.04 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.3" x 8.9"

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