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Dec 21, 2018 · The iconic French singer comes to life in this definitive biography, which captures Edith Piaf's immense charisma along with the time and place that gave rise to her unprecedented international career Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-269) and index
Feb 23, 2024 · Piaf, Edith, 1915-1963, Piaf, Édith, 1915-1963, Singers -- France Publisher Liverpool : Liverpool University Press Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size 678.7M
Commonly, such accounts portray their subjects as covertly resistant if they weren’t actively so. This is certainly the case with Piaf. For Albert Bensoussan, Piaf was ‘definitely resistant’. 2 Close Both Monique Lange and Anne Sizaire see the fact that she had a Jewish lover during the Occupation as a personal form of ‘resistance’. 3 Close Carolyn Burke is a little more nuanced: the ...
Oct 6, 2024 · Edith Piaf was a French whose expressive interpretations of the , or French ballad, made her internationally famous. Among her trademark songs were “Non, je ne regrette rien” (“No, I Don’t Regret Anything”) and “La Vie en rose” (“Life in Pink”). She moved audiences with her passionate renditions of songs about loss and love.
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- Edith Piaf, abandoned at birth by her café-singer mother, was taken in by her grandmother and reared in a brothel. Piaf was blinded by complication...
- In 1935 Edith Piaf was discovered by a cabaret owner who gave her her first nightclub job. He began calling her “la môme piaf,” Parisian slang for...
- Edith Piaf was a French singer whose expressive interpretations of the chanson, or French ballad, made her internationally famous. Among her tradem...
In this mesmerising, definitive new biography Carolyn Burke gives us Piaf in her own time and place, illuminating through sympathetic readings of sources hitherto unavailable both the charm and the pathos of the 'Little Sparrow' who enchanted generations and still enthralls us today Standard print ed. originally published: London: Bloomsbury, 2011
Sep 23, 2017 · The great merit and innovation of Looseley’s method is to approach the phenomenon of Piaf’s life, career, and afterlife in the popular imagination worldwide, as a ‘cultural history’ of the range of ‘imagined Piafs’ who together represent how she should best be fully understood. Furthermore, the investigation is enriched by Looseley ...
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Nov 1, 2015 · The case of the Middle Ages shows that religious control over Latin led to a massive unintelligible experience of ritual singing, which reflected a strong class divide and created a demand for ...
