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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.
- Hugh Dauncey
- 2018
But if the song was so impregnated with Vichy ideology, why did it succeed in 1946, when Vichyism was discredited? The answer has to do with Piaf’s ideological importance after the Liberation. The traditional values the song enshrines were not of course exclusive to Vichy but were as universally reassuring as Christmas in a Hollywood movie.
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.
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...
The forms the jubilees take are generally similar, but they are interesting for what they can tell us about how the imagined Piaf has managed to survive for 50 years in her absence and how she’s become an international currency. These are the issues I want to tackle here.
Jan 26, 2016 · Edith Piaf died on 10 October, aged just 48. December 2015 marked the centenary of Piaf’s birth, not her premature passing, but because the exact date of that birth was lost to the Paris...
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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 ...
