Chanteuse in the city : the realist singer in French film / Kelley Conway.

Long before Edith Piaf sang "La vie en rose," her predecessors took to the stage of the belle epoque music hall, singing of female desire, the treachery of men, the harshness of working-class life, and the rough neighborhoods of Paris. Icon of working-class femininity and the underworld, t...

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Main Author: Conway, Kelley, 1963-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004.
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