Music for Torching: Torch Singing as Cultural Critique by Stacy Holman Jones

Music for Torching: Torch Singing as Cultural Critique

Stacy Holman Jones

208 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
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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...

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