American Diva: Extraordinary, Unruly, Fabulous - Tapa dura

Paredez, Deborah

 
9781324035305: American Diva: Extraordinary, Unruly, Fabulous
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ISBN 10: 1324035307 ISBN 13: 9781324035305
Editorial: WW Norton & Co, 2024

Sinopsis

What does it mean to be a “diva”? A shifting, increasingly loaded term, it has been used to both deride and celebrate charismatic and unapologetically fierce performers like Aretha Franklin, Divine and the women of Labelle. In this brilliant, powerful blend of incisive criticism and electric memoir, Deborah Paredez―scholar, cultural critic and lifelong diva devotee―unravels our enduring fascination with these icons and explores how divas have challenged American ideas about feminism, performance and freedom. American Diva journeys into Tina Turner’s scintillating performances, Celia Cruz’s command of the male-dominated salsa world, the transcendent revival of Jomama Jones after a period of exile and the unparalleled excellence of Venus and Serena Williams. Recounting how she and her mother endlessly watched Rita Moreno’s powerhouse portrayal of Anita in West Side Story and how she learned much about being bigger than life from her fabulous Tía Lucia, Paredez chronicles the celebrated and skilled performers who not only shaped her life but boldly expressed the aspiration for freedom among brown, Black and gay communities. Paredez also traces the evolution of the diva through the decades, dismayed at the mid-aughts’ commodification and juvenilising of its meaning but finding its lasting beauty and power.

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Acerca del autor

Deborah Paredez is the chair of the Writing Program at Columbia University. The author of Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory and two poetry collections, she lives in New York.

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Editorial
WW Norton & Co
Año de publicación
2024
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ISBN 10 
1324035307
ISBN 13 
9781324035305
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Número de páginas
256
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