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Torch Song

Freya Jarman-Ivens

Freya Jarman-Ivens

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume VIII : Genres: North America

The Continuum International, 2012

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...Torch songs, in the most general sense, are slow and sentimental love-songs, the lyrics of which are concerned with unrequited, failed or somehow emotionally unprofitable love. The origins of the term are not entirely clear...