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