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Édith Piaf : A Cultural History.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (264 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781781384251
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Édith PiafDDC classification:
  • 782.4216409
LOC classification:
  • ML420.P52.L664 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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