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

Name: Torch Singing
Brand: AltaMira Press
SKU: 9780759106598
Price: 7800 KES
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ISBN: 9780759106598

by Stacy Holman Jones

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Ethnographic Alternatives

ISBN-10 0759106592

ISBN-13 9780759106598

Publisher AltaMira Press

Imprint AltaMira Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jun 28th, 2007

Print length 228 Pages

Weight 374 grams

Dimensions 15.30 x 22.80 x 1.70 cms

Product Classification: Blues Popular music

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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.

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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