UID:
kobvindex_HPB961105658
Format:
1 online resource (1 electronic resource (vii, 254 pages))
ISBN:
9781781384251
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1781384258
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.
Note:
pt. I NARRATING PIAF -- 1. Inventing la Mome -- 2. Piaf and her public -- 3. A singer at war -- part 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 -- part III AFTERLIVES -- 7. Losing Piaf -- 8. Remembering Piaf -- 9. Performing Piaf.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Edith Piaf. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2015 ISBN 9781781382578
Language:
English
Keywords:
Biography
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Biographies.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
URL:
Cambridge University Press
URL:
Liverpool University Press
URL:
https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2019667557
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Cambridge University Press
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