Torch Singing

Stacy Holman Jones is assistant professor in the department of communication at the University of South Florida. She is the author of Kaleidoscope Notes: Writing Women's Music and Organizational Culture and several essays on music, feminism, performance, autoethnography, and performative writing.

This is a powerful, richly nuanced, evocative work; a stunning and brilliantly innovative pedagogical intervention. It provides ground zero—the starting place for the next generation of performance scholars who study desire, intimacy, the stories we tell ourselves about who we are, torch singers, love's wounds, healing and hearing new musical sounds, lyrics for torching, new ways of writing and breathing our selves into being.

• 1 Interpreter of Lies2 The Scene of Desire3 Sing Me a Torch Song4 The Way You Haunt my Dreams5 Hearing Voices6 Love's Wounds7 Hopeful Openness8 Circular Breathing9 Music for Torching