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 are possibly
performing critiques of the very lyrics they sing. From this
perspective, we see the singer giving expression not not only to
desire but also to an incipient determination to resist and change.
Holman Jones also reveals points of contact in the opposition
between spectators and performers, emotion and intellect, and love
and power. Instead of interpreting the expression of love as a
woman's violent mistake-as willing deception and passive
fate-Holman Jones allows us to hear an active search for hope.
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