Torch Singing: Performing Resistance and Desire from Billie Holiday to Edith PiafRowman Altamira, 2007 - 217 sider "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 are singing. From this perspective, we see the singer giving expression 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."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Interpreter of Lies | 1 |
The Scene of Desire | 5 |
Sing Me a Torch Song | 11 |
The Way You Haunt My Dreams | 31 |
Hearing Voices | 67 |
Loves Wounds | 103 |
Hopeful Openness | 139 |
Circular Breathing | 167 |
Music for Torching | 187 |
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About the Author | |
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