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[...]

In this definitive reference volume, almost fifty leading thinkers and practitioners of autoethnographic research - from four continents and a dozen disciplines - comprehensively cover its vision, opportunities and challenges. Chapters address the theory, history, and ethics of autoethnographic prac[...]