Édith Piaf S Récital 1961

Author : David L. Looseley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501362125

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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 : David L. Looseley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501362118

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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 : David L. Looseley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501362132

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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 : David Looseley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781781382578

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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 : Albert Bensoussan
Publisher : Editions Gallimard
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-03T01:59:00+02:00
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9782072477126

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Edith Piaf by Albert Bensoussan Pdf

'C’est l’amour qui fait rêver.' Édith Piaf, de son vrai nom Édith Giovanna Gassion (1915-1963), est bien plus qu’une chanteuse de music-hall et de variétés. Celle qui fut très tôt surnommée 'la Môme Piaf' est l’incarnation même de la chanson française. 'La vie en rose', l’'hymne à l’amour', 'La Foule' sont aujourd’hui encore des chansons interprétées dans le monde entier. Au-delà de toute mythologie – l’enfance pauvre à Belleville, sainte Thérèse lui redonnant la vue qu’elle avait perdue, l’usage de la morphine, ses nombreuses histoires d’amours avec Cerdan, Montand, Moustaki, etc. –, Albert Bensoussan nous dévoile une femme engagée dans son temps, forte et fragile, prenant tous les risques, surmontant toutes les douleurs, dont Cocteau affirmait qu’il n’avait jamais connu d’être moins économe de son âme, 'qui ne la dépensait pas, mais la prodiguait et en jetait l’or par les fenêtres'.

Author : Carolyn Burke
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408813911

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No Regrets by Carolyn Burke Pdf

Edith Piaf was one of the most beloved 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 : Gilles Costaz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:757328822

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Édith Piaf by Gilles Costaz Pdf

Author : Christie Laume
Publisher : L'Archipel
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9782809816334

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The last love of Edith Piaf by Christie Laume Pdf

At the age of 26, Théophanis Lamboukas meets Edith Piaf, in January 1962. He is to become her second husband and the duo will perform her last big hit, 'A quoi ça sert l'amour?'When the star's secretary, Claude Figus, introduces them to each other, Théo is so dazzled by 'the Little Sparrow' that he is speechless with emotion. Smitten, Edith confides to Figus, 'I want to see your friend again so I can find out whether he's as smart as he is good-looking, because he hasn't said a word all evening.'They are driven to see each other again and Piaf encourages Théo to take up a career as a singer. She invents his stage name, Sarapo ('I love you' in Greek). They form a couple in life and on the stage, until Piaf's death on the 10th October, 1963. Théo, her last love, joins her seven years later, victim of a car accident.Their wonderful and tragic story is evoked here by Christie Laume; the singer's last months as they've never been revealed before.

Author : Thierry Rollet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1770767266

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Edith Piaf. Ode to the Child of a Vagrant by Thierry Rollet Pdf

Few artists have marked their own eras, as well as those that come later, in the way that Édith Piaf has. People from every generation can identify with her popular songs, which make the absolute most of her virtuosic vocal skill, resonating from such a small person-who also had a very big heart. This book is meant to be more simply a biography: it is also meant to be an in-depth analysis of an international star with an exceptional personality and incomparable musical talent. A bona fide ambassador of French folk music, she served as the icon of musical potential and achievement-both in France and around the world.

Author : John Encarnação
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501373374

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Ed Kuepper's Honey Steel's Gold by John Encarnação Pdf

Ed Kuepper's history as a rock pioneer with The Saints and Laughing Clowns means that his albums of the early 1990s represent a remapping of the singer-songwriter concept. His classic Honey Steel's Gold shares a looseness with blues and folk recordings of the 1940s and 1950s, capturing performances that take detours, stretch and contract, wax and wane, such as the album's hit “The Way I Made You Feel." Honey Steel's Gold is a landscape to be immersed in, to get lost in. It provides a space not where questions are answered but where we might stop and get a drink; an environment that provides solace, but not platitudes; where we can share a wry smile about the downsides of the human condition rather than attempt the illusion of blocking them out completely. This study incorporates a consideration of Kuepper's iconoclastic career, at odds with the music industry and the grunge era into which the album was released. Beyond the apparent facts, though, there is interpretation, speculation, and attempts to meet Honey Steel's Gold on its own terms in some imaginary place.

Author : Ben Green,Ian Rogers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501393310

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Screamfeeder's Kitten Licks by Ben Green,Ian Rogers Pdf

Released in 1996, Kitten Licks catapulted Brisbane indie-rock three-piece Screamfeeder into the '90s alternative-rock boom alongside Powderfinger, silverchair, You Am I and Regurgitator. International tours, regular festival shows, and TV appearances followed. And yet, commercial success for Screamfeeder was comparatively short-lived. By the end of the decade, the band's outlook was bleak: at a career standstill and unable to record new music. Today, both Screamfeeder and Kitten Licks endure as fiercely loved cult icons. In its vitality and idiosyncrasy, Kitten Licks captures a moment of cresting change for a band, a city and a national scene, while continuing to delight and inspire those who discover it anew. This book tells the story of Kitten Licks in the words of those who lived it, and who still do. How it was made, how it was swept up into '90s mythology and what the journey tells us about the fickle nature of music production in Australia, namely: how to survive it.

Author : Lila Ellen Gray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501346224

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Amália Rodrigues’s Amália at the Olympia by Lila Ellen Gray Pdf

The voice of Amália Rodrigues (1920-1999), the “Queen of Fado” and Portugal's most celebrated diva, was extraordinary for its interpretive power, soul wrenching timbre, and international reach. Amalia à l'Olympia (1957) is an album made from recordings of her first performances at the fabled Olympia Music Hall in Paris in 1956. This album, which was issued for multiple national markets (including: France; USA; Japan; Britain; the Netherlands) catapulted Amália Rodrigues into the international limelight. During its time, this album held the potential for international listeners, outside of Portugal, to represent Portugal, while also standing in for cosmopolitanism, the glamorous city of Paris, and to present a sonorous voyage in sound. This book introduces readers to the voice of Amália Rodrigues and to the genre of the Portuguese fado, offering a primer in how to listen to both. It unpacks this iconic album and the voice, sound, style, and celebrity of Amália Rodrigues. It situates this album within a historical context marked by cold war Atlanticist diplomacy, Portugal's dictatorial regime, and the emergence of new forms of media, travel, and tourism.In so doing, it examines processes that shaped the internationalization of peripheral popular musics and the making of female vocal stardom in the mid-20th century.

Author : Dianne Rodger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501392696

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Hilltop Hoods' The Calling by Dianne Rodger Pdf

The success of the Hip-Hop album The Calling (2003) by the Hilltop Hoods was a major event on the timeline of Hip-Hop in Australia. It launched a formerly 'underground' scene into the spotlight, radically transforming the group members' lives and creating new opportunities for other Hip-Hop artists. This book analyses the impact of the album by drawing on original interviews with fifteen Hip-Hop practitioners from across Australia, including artists who contributed to the album. These primary interviews are interwoven with material from media sources and close readings of song lyrics and album imagery. An exploration of the early histories of Hip-Hop in Australia with a focus on the formation of Obese Records and the Hilltop Hoods' biography gives way to analysis of specific tracks from the album and the Hoods' prowess as live performers. The book uses The Calling as a lens to examine the beliefs and practices of Hip-Hop enthusiasts in Australia, including changes since the album was released. Published in 2023 to coincide with the album's twenty-year anniversary, the book is an engaging evaluation of a musical release that was so significant that people now use it explain two distinct periods in Australian Hip-Hop (pre or post The Calling).

Author : Nicholas Tochka
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501363085

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Ardit Gjebrea’s Projekt Jon by Nicholas Tochka Pdf

As market reforms and migration transformed Albania in the early 1990s, Ardit Gjebrea began mixing traditional folk music with world music and Italian pop. The resulting album, Projekt Jon (1997), provided a new model for song-Western and cosmopolitan, yet firmly rooted in the fertile soil of the nation-against a backdrop of deepening political uncertainty about the very future of Albania. The Ionian Project announced itself with the frenetic beating of the daullë and the traditional cries of Albania's highland shepherd. This sprawling collaboration between singer-songwriter Ardit Gjebrea, folk singer Hysni Zela, producer Paul Mazzolini, and a team of crack studio musicians in Italy, had an outsized ambition: to transcend the small postsocialist nation-state's borders, imaginatively crafting through sound a new home in Europe for its citizens. But as Gjebrea prepared to launch Projekt Jon, violence prompted by the collapse of widespread pyramid schemes threatened to tear Albania apart. And for the intellectuals concerned about growing cracks in the symbolic foundations of the Albanian nation-state, the album came to serve as a referendum on the nature of postsocialist citizenship.

Author : Peter Beilharz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501390166

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Chain's Toward the Blues by Peter Beilharz Pdf

Melbourne, 1971: radical counterculture, hippies, opposition to the Vietnam War and consumerism. The birth of Oz blues rock. Influenced by American blues after Robert Johnson, parallel to developments with Paul Butterfield, the Bluesbreakers and Canned Heat, Chain's music also developed in distinct ways, taking on a style later referred to as Oz blues, or Oz indigo. The emergence of prog rock and the consolidation of blues rock globally made for interesting times. Rock shifted beyond the basics, in the direction of new musical forms and prefigurative politics. In this moment, Chain, four regional white boys with jazz cred and blues licks, recorded the classic Oz blues single Black and Blue and its bedrock LP, Toward the Blues. 50 years later, it remains a monument in Australian rock history. Based on interviews with guitarist and singer Phil Manning, scholarly research and memoirs, this book tells the story of the album's creation and its cultural impact on the Melbourne music scene in a time of significant social change, seeking to capture the magic of that moment.