Edith Piaf

Author : Carolyn Burke
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408822159

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No Regrets by Carolyn Burke Pdf

Edith Piaf was one of the most greatly loved singers of the twentieth century. From the start of her exceptional career in the 1930s, her waif-like form and heart-wrenching voice endeared her first to the French, then to audiences around the globe. As she moved from her youth singing in the streets to the glamour of the Paris music-halls, Piaf formed lasting friendships with such figures as Maurice Chevalier, Jean Cocteau and Marlene Dietrich; she wrote many of her own songs, aided the Resistance in the Second World War, and mentored younger singers like Yves Montand and Charles Aznavour. Yet her path to stardom was full of tragedies - the death of her daughter in infancy; the death of Marcel Cerdan, her greatest love, in a plane crash; her many illnesses, affairs and addictions, all of which nourished her passionate performances and strengthened her enduring bond with audiences. 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.

Author : David Looseley
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781388594

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Édith Piaf by David Looseley Pdf

The world-famous French singer Édith Piaf (1915-63) was never just a singer. This book suggests new ways of understanding her, her myth and her meanings over time at home and abroad, by proposing the notion of an ‘imagined’ Piaf.

Author : Simone Berteaut
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Singers
ISBN : 0140036695

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Piaf by Simone Berteaut Pdf

Author : Laurent Poret
Publisher : Laurent Poret
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Edith Piaf by Laurent Poret Pdf

The legend that emerged from a journalist's imagination, and maintained by Piaf, gave birth to it on 19 December 1915 in Paris, at 72, rue de Belleville, in the 20th arrondissement, according to the plaque affixed to the house located at that address. Some sources even say that she was born "on the steps" of the front door of the building, on the pilgrimage of a police officer who took the baby out of her mother's womb. However, according to her birth certificate at the Paris Registry Office, Édith Giovanna Gassion was born at 4, rue de la Chine, the address of Tenon Hospital, which is indeed one of the health establishments closest to rue de Belleville. Born into poverty, Edith Piaf is a child of the ball whose parents had been in the entertainment business for two generations.

Author : Edith Piaf
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Singers
ISBN : 0720611113

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My Life by Edith Piaf Pdf

Miles Hordern sailed alone in a 28-foot sloop across the Southern Ocean from New Zealand to Patagonia and back - a voyage of 13,000 nautical miles across the largest stretch of water on earth and a region of icebergs, gales and high seas. Six weeks later he made landfall on the coast of Chile and, after a chance meeting, embarked on a 1000-mile cruise southwards to survey channels and fjords in Patagonia, one of the last uncharted areas in the world. From Chile he sailed north on the Humboldt current, then west through the tropics on the return passage to New Zealand, arriving home some 18 months after he had left.

Author : Edith Piaf
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1995-07-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781495038952

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La Vie En Rose Sheet Music by Edith Piaf Pdf

(Piano Vocal). Piano/vocal arrangment of the favorite French ballad made famous by the "Little Sparrow," Edith Piaf.

Author : David Looseley
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781384251

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Édith Piaf by David Looseley Pdf

The world-famous French singer Édith Piaf (1915-63) was never just a singer. This book suggests new ways of understanding her, her myth and her meanings over time at home and abroad, by proposing the notion of an ‘imagined’ Piaf.

Author : David L. Looseley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501362125

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Édith Piaf's Récital 1961 by David L. Looseley Pdf

From the beginning of her career in 1935 to her death in 1963 and right up to the present, Édith Piaf has been recognized as unique and iconic. She is France's most celebrated and mythified singing star across the world. Récital 1961 explores her most important album: the live recording of her comeback concert at the Paris Olympia on 29 December 1960, which unveiled her keynote song, 'Non je ne regrette rien' (No Regrets). It examines the content, context and significance of the concert in relation to Piaf's career, her life and her celebrity. What was so special about the performance and why did the ecstatic audiences, that night and at the subsequent performances in 1961, find it so powerful and moving? The book dissects the live show, the album and the songs that feature on it, and at a deeper level their place in the invention of the public Piaf we know today – asking why, more than a century after her birth and 60 years after her death, we still remember her, listen to her and commemorate her around the world.

Author : Stacy Linn Holman Jones
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0759106592

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Torch Singing by Stacy Linn Holman Jones Pdf

"In this innovative book, Stacy Holman Jones presents torch singing as a much more complicated phenomenon than the familiar trope of a woman lamenting her victimhood. With an ethnographer's eye, she observes the bluesy torch singers, asking if they are possibly performing critiques of the very lyrics they are singing. From this perspective, we see the singer giving expression not only to desire but also to an incipient determination to resist and change. Holman Jones also reveals points of contact in the opposition between spectators and performers, emotion and intellect, and love and power. Instead of interpreting the expression of love as a woman's violent mistake - as willing deception and passive fate - Holman Jones allows us to hear an active search for hope."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Margaret Crosland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Singers
ISBN : 0340348259

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Piaf by Margaret Crosland Pdf

Biography of French singer Edith Piaf.

Author : David Bret
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Singers
ISBN : 1906217203

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Piaf by David Bret Pdf

A tiny, black-clad figure with a scorchingly powerful voice who dominated stages around the world for almost 30 years, the legendary Edith Piaf still reigns supreme more than four decades after her death. In this powerful book, Piaf's amazing rags to riches to story is told with unprecedented detail, honesty, and compassion. Friends, composers, lovers, colleagues, and the father of Piaf's only child have contributed. Skillfully analyzing every aspect of this great artist's life, a vivid portrait is painted of the celebrated chanteuse whose triumphs and tragedies were shared by an adoring public. Illustrated with photographs from the author's collection and containing a complete discography, Piaf also features detailed appendices of her films, plays, and all stage and screen tributes, making this the most comprehensive and up-to-date biography available. Piaf is the ultimate tribute to the undisputed genius of a remarkable woman.

Author : Edith Piaf
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131782745

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The Wheel of Fortune by Edith Piaf Pdf

BIOGRAPHY, AUTOBIOGRAPHY / WOMEN'S STUDIES / MUSIC

Author : Gilles Costaz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:757328822

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Édith Piaf by Gilles Costaz Pdf

Author : Pam Gems
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781849432924

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Piaf by Pam Gems Pdf

From the streets of Paris to worldwide fame Edith Gassion (known to all as 'Piaf', the sparrow) continues to be remembered and revered for her exceptional voice and extraordinary, troubled life. In this new version of Piaf, Pam Gems has reworked her classic 1978 play, vividly capturing the glamour and squalor, the rise and fall of this complex, fragile and enigmatic performer.

Author : Margaret Crosland,Ralph Harvey
Publisher : Arcadia Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015056379715

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A Cry from the Heart by Margaret Crosland,Ralph Harvey Pdf

An intimate, often harrowing life-story of one of the world's greatest singers whose story is brought to life in this sublime biography which sheds new life on the phenomenon that was Piaf. Piaf's rise to international stardom, her lifelong addiction to alcohol and drugs, and her many turbulent love affairs are documented here as are her friendships with such stars as Cocteau, Dietrich, Chevalier, Montand and Chaplin. Illustrated.