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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 ...
- Hugh Dauncey
- 2018
May 17, 2015 · Edith Piaf's legacy is stronger than ever in native France. Published May 17, 2015 at 9:42 AM EDT Updated May 21, 2017 at 4:16 AM EDT. By Team. She has a Place named after her in Paris; a spacious ...
The chapter identifies the ways in which her once transgressive persona has been normalised and legitimated by these processes of commemoration. It also compares the posthumous meanings Piaf has acquired in France, the UK and the US, concluding that the imagined Piaf of today is an intertext. Keywords: remembrance, commemoration, anniversaries ...
Oct 8, 2013 · When singer Edith Piaf died nearly 50 years ago, on October 10, 1963, she was France's biggest international star and the first to conquer America, with her melancholy music becoming an indelible ...
Feb 15, 2022 · Although she achieved wealth and international stardom, right from the start Edith Piaf’s life was undeniably tough. Edith Gassion (1915-1963) was born into a family of poverty-stricken street performers in Paris and abandoned by her free-wheeling mother at birth. She lived briefly with her maternal grandmother, but in 1916 went to live with ...
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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Apr 1, 2016 · 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’ of Piaf means exploring her cultural, social and ...
