Format:
1 Online-Ressource (vii, 254 pages)
ISBN:
1781384258
,
1781382573
,
1781382573
,
9781781384251
,
9781781382578
Content:
The world-famous French singer Édith Piaf (1915-63) was never just a singer. This book suggests new ways of understanding her, her myth and her meanings over time at home and abroad, by proposing the notion of an 'imagined Piaf
Content:
pt. I NARRATING PIAF -- 1. Inventing la Mome -- 2. Piaf and her public -- 3. A singer at war -- pt. II PIAF AND CHANSON -- 4. A new Piaf -- 5. High art, low culture: Piaf and la chanson francaise -- 6. Ideology, tragedy, celebrity: a new middlebrow -- pt. III AFTERLIVES -- 7. Losing Piaf -- 8. Remembering Piaf -- 9. Performing Piaf.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781781384251
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Looseley, David Edith Piaf Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2015
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
