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But the notion of commemoration as a duty seems also to have trickled down to reach less cataclysmic events and individuals associated with suffering in some form. One reason why Piaf is memorialised much more assiduously than other entertainers of her era may therefore be the narratives of tragedy that have steadily been built round her.
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.
- Hugh Dauncey
- 2018
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...
Oct 6, 2024 · Edith Piaf was a French singer whose expressive interpretations of the chanson, 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”).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- 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...
Apr 1, 2016 · A ‘cultural history’ of Piaf means exploring her cultural, social and political significance as a national and international icon, looking at her shifting meanings over time, at home and abroad. How did she become a star and a myth?
- David Looseley
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.
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Jun 21, 2016 · Edith Piaf (1915–1963) is without a doubt the best-known French singer of the twentieth century, so it is somewhat surprising that there has been no full-length, English-language academic study of ...
