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Torch Singing
Performing Resistance and Desire from Billie Holiday to Edith Piaf
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2007
Summary
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 very lyrics they sing. From this perspective, we see the singer giving expression not not only to desire but also to an incipient determination to resist and change. Holman Jones also reveals points of contact in the opposition between spectators and performers, emotion and intellect, and love and power. Instead of interpreting the expression of love as a woman's violent mistake—as willing deception and passive fate—Holman Jones allows us to hear an active search for hope.
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Copyright year
2007
ISBN-Print
978-0-7591-0659-8
ISBN-Online
978-0-7591-1375-6
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
219
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
1 Interpreter of Lies No access Pages 1 - 4
2 The Scene of Desire No access Pages 5 - 10
3 Sing Me a Torch Song No access Pages 11 - 30
4 The Way You Haunt My Dreams No access Pages 31 - 66
5 Hearing Voices No access Pages 67 - 102
6 Love's Wounds No access Pages 103 - 138
7 Hopeful Openness No access Pages 139 - 166
8 Circular Breathing No access Pages 167 - 186
9 Music for Torching No access Pages 187 - 192
Bibliography No access Pages 193 - 210
Index No access Pages 211 - 216
About the Author No access Pages 217 - 219
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