Torch singing : performing resistance and desire from Billie Holiday to Edith Piaf /
"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...
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| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Md. :
AltaMira Press,
©2007.
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| Series: | Ethnographic alternatives book series
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