Format:
1 Online-Ressource (264 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9781781384251
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:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology -- Introduction -- Part I NARRATING PIAF -- 1. Inventing la Môme -- 2. Piaf and her public -- 3. A singer at war -- Part II PIAF AND CHANSON -- 4. A new Piaf -- 5. High art, low culture -- 6. Ideology, tragedy, celebrity -- Part III AFTERLIVES -- 7. Losing Piaf -- 8. Remembering Piaf -- 9. Performing Piaf -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781781382578
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Looseley, David Édith Piaf : A Cultural History Oxford : Liverpool University Press,c2015
Language:
English
URL:
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