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

by Stacy Holman Jones

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: Rlpg/Galleys
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 8.9"