Edith Piaf : : a cultural history / / David Looseley.
The world-famous French singer Édith Piaf (1915-63) was never just a singer. Dozens of biographies of her, of variable quality, have seldom got beyond the well known and usually contested 'facts' of her life. This book suggests new ways of understanding her. A 'cultural history'...
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| Superior document: | Liverpool scholarship online |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Liverpool : : Liverpool University Press,, 2015. |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Liverpool scholarship online.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 254 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Jul 2017). |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.