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

by Stacy Holman Jones

Book Overview

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: Rlpg/Galleys
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"