Torch Singing

Performing Resistance and Desire from Billie Holiday to Edith Piaf

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

AvStacy Holman Jones,Stacy Holman Jones

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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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Utgivningsdatum2007-06-28
Mått153 x 230 x 15 mm
Vikt367 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEthnographic Alternatives
Antal sidor228
FörlagAltaMira Press
ISBN9780759106598

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This is a powerful, richly nuanced, evocative work; a stunning and brilliantly innovative pedagogical intervention. It provides ground zero—the starting place for the next generation of performance scholars who study desire, intimacy, the stories we tell ourselves about who we are, torch singers, love's wounds, healing and hearing new musical sounds, lyrics for torching, new ways of writing and breathing our selves into being.

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Tony E. Adams, Stacy Holman Jones, Carolyn Ellis, Northeastern Illinois University) Adams, Tony E. (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, California State University Northridge) Holman Jones, Stacy (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, University of South Florida) Ellis, Carolyn (Professor, Professor, Tony E Adams

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