Chanteuses -- France

Singing Sappho: improvisation and authority in nineteenth-century…

by Esse, Melina

fromOpera lab

0 Type: Book

"From the theatrical stage to the literary salon, the figure of Sappho--the ancient poet and inspiring icon of feminine creativity--played a major role in the intertwining histories of improvisation, text, and performance throughout the nineteenth century. Exploring the connecti…

Singing Sappho: improvisation and authority in nineteenth-century…

by Esse, Melina, Walter de Gruyter & Co

fromOpera lab

0 Type: Book

"From the theatrical stage to the literary salon, the figure of Sappho--the ancient poet and inspiring icon of feminine creativity--played a major role in the intertwining histories of improvisation, text, and performance throughout the nineteenth century. Exploring the connecti…

Singing Sappho: improvisation and authority in nineteenth-century…

by Esse, Melina

fromOpera lab

0 Type: Book

From the theatrical stage to the literary salon, the figure of Sappho--the ancient poet and inspiring icon of feminine creativity--played a major role in the intertwining histories of improvisation, text, and performance throughout the nineteenth century. Exploring the connectio…

Singing Sappho: improvisation and authority in nineteenth-century…

by Esse, Melina

fromOpera lab

0 Type: Book

"From the theatrical stage to the literary salon, the figure of Sappho--the ancient poet and inspiring icon of feminine creativity--played a major role in the intertwining histories of improvisation, text, and performance throughout the nineteenth century. Exploring the connecti…

Singing Sappho: improvisation and authority in nineteenth-century…

by Esse, Melina

fromOpera lab

0 Type: Book

"From the theatrical stage to the literary salon, the figure of Sappho--the ancient poet and inspiring icon of feminine creativity--played a major role in the intertwining histories of improvisation, text, and performance throughout the nineteenth century. Exploring the connecti…

Yé-Yé girls of '60's French pop

by Deluxe, Jean-Emmanuel, Lio

0 Type: Book

"Yé-Yé is a delightful style of pop music featuring young female singers that influenced France and many other countries, as says Susan Sontag, with its particular "camp" style throughout the 1960s. Yé-Yé pop had secondary explosions in the 1970s and 1990s in Japan and Europe th…