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

Author: Hagendorf, Col

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Genres & Styles | Blues |

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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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Publisher Name	Altamira Press
Author Name	Hagendorf, Col
Format	Audio
Bisac Subject Major	MUS
Language	NG
Isbn 10	0759106592
Isbn 13	9780759106598
Target Age Group	min:NA, max:NA
Series	00003447417
Dimensions	00.88" H x 70.06" L x 13.00" W
Page Count	228

Author Details

Stacy Holman Jones is assistant professor in the department of communication at the University of South Florida. She is the author of Kaleidoscope Notes: Writing Women's Music and Organizational Culture and several essays on music, feminism, performance, autoethnography, and performative writing.

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