Torch Singing
Performing Resistance and Desire from Billie Holiday to Edith Piaf
Seiten
2007
Altamira Press (Verlag)
978-0-7591-0658-1 (ISBN)
Altamira Press (Verlag)
978-0-7591-0658-1 (ISBN)
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.
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.
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.
1 Interpreter of Lies 2 The Scene of Desire 3 Sing Me a Torch Song 4 The Way You Haunt my Dreams 5 Hearing Voices 6 Love's Wounds 7 Hopeful Openness 8 Circular Breathing 9 Music for Torching
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 8.9.2007 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Ethnographic Alternatives |
| Verlagsort | California |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 163 x 237 mm |
| Gewicht | 481 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7591-0658-4 / 0759106584 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7591-0658-1 / 9780759106581 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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