Torch Singing

Performing Resistance and Desire from Billie Holiday to Edith Piaf

By:

Stacy Holman Jones

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Hardback

Series:

Ethnographic Alternatives

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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.

Author Biography:

Stacy Holman Jones is assistant professor in the department of communication at the University of South Florida. She is the author of Kaleidoscope Notes: Writing Women's Music and Organizational Culture and several essays on music, feminism, performance, autoethnography, and performative writing.

Release date Australia

July 8th, 2007

Author

Stacy Holman Jones

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

228

Series

Ethnographic Alternatives

Dimensions

163x237x19

ISBN-13

9780759106581

Product ID

5864878

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