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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-main">Torch Song</span></h1>
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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="de" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="de" dir="ltr"><p>Ein <b>Torch Song</b> ist eine <a href="Sentimentalit%C3%A4t" title="Sentimentalität">sentimentale</a> Form des <a href="Liebeslied" title="Liebeslied">Liebeslieds</a>, in der typischerweise der <a href="Protagonist" title="Protagonist">Protagonist</a> über die nicht erwiderte oder verlorene Liebe klagt.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-forte_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-forte-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Die Bezeichnung stammt von der englischen Redensart <i>to carry a torch for someone</i> (dt.: „jemanden heimlich, sehnlich verehren, nach jemandem schmachten“).
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Popmusik">Popmusik</h2></div>
<p>Es waren vor allem Sängerinnen von populären Songs, die als <i>Torch singers</i> bezeichnet wurden und deren Repertoire vorwiegend aus entsprechendem Material bestand. <i>Torch singing</i> ist mehr eine Nische als ein Genre und erstreckt sich bis zum traditionellen <a href="Jazzgesang" title="Jazzgesang">Jazzgesang</a>, obwohl die amerikanische Tradition der <i>Torch Songs</i> eher auf den melodischen Strukturen des <a href="Blues" title="Blues">Blues</a> beruht.<sup id="cite_ref-forte_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-forte-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Zu den bekannten Sängern von <i>Torch Songs</i> zählen <a href="Mildred_Bailey" title="Mildred Bailey">Mildred Bailey</a>, <a href="LaVern_Baker" title="LaVern Baker">LaVern Baker</a>, <a href="Shirley_Bassey" title="Shirley Bassey">Shirley Bassey</a>, <a href="Ruth_Brown" title="Ruth Brown">Ruth Brown</a>, <a href="Cher" title="Cher">Cher</a>, <a href="June_Christy" title="June Christy">June Christy</a>, <a href="Rosemary_Clooney" title="Rosemary Clooney">Rosemary Clooney</a>, <a href="Chris_Connor" title="Chris Connor">Chris Connor</a>, <a href="Ella_Fitzgerald" title="Ella Fitzgerald">Ella Fitzgerald</a>, <a href="Billie_Holiday" title="Billie Holiday">Billie Holiday</a>, <a href="Shirley_Horn" title="Shirley Horn">Shirley Horn</a>, <a href="Lena_Horne" title="Lena Horne">Lena Horne</a>, <a href="Etta_James" title="Etta James">Etta James</a>, <a href="Eartha_Kitt" title="Eartha Kitt">Eartha Kitt</a>, <a href="Peggy_Lee_(S%C3%A4ngerin)" title="Peggy Lee (Sängerin)">Peggy Lee</a>, <a href="Abbey_Lincoln" title="Abbey Lincoln">Abbey Lincoln</a>, <a href="Julie_London" title="Julie London">Julie London</a>, <a href="Big_Maybelle" title="Big Maybelle">Big Maybelle</a>, <a href="Carmen_McRae" title="Carmen McRae">Carmen McRae</a>, <a href="Helen_Merrill" title="Helen Merrill">Helen Merrill</a>, <a href="Anita_O%E2%80%99Day" title="Anita O’Day">Anita O’Day</a>, <a href="Otis_Redding" title="Otis Redding">Otis Redding</a>, <a href="Sade_Adu" title="Sade Adu">Sade</a>, <a href="Bessie_Smith" title="Bessie Smith">Bessie Smith</a>, <a href="Barbra_Streisand" title="Barbra Streisand">Barbra Streisand</a>, <a href="Dionne_Warwick" title="Dionne Warwick">Dionne Warwick</a>, <a href="Dinah_Washington" title="Dinah Washington">Dinah Washington</a>, <a href="Lee_Wiley" title="Lee Wiley">Lee Wiley</a>, <a href="Cassandra_Wilson" title="Cassandra Wilson">Cassandra Wilson</a> und <a href="Adele_(S%C3%A4ngerin)" title="Adele (Sängerin)">Adele</a>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Film_und_Theater">Film und Theater</h2></div>
<p>Es gibt mehrere Filme und Theaterproduktionen, die das Thema aufgriffen. Zu nennen sind die beiden gleichnamigen Filme <i>Torch Song</i> (deutscher Titel <i><a href="Herzen_im_Fieber" title="Herzen im Fieber">Herzen im Fieber</a></i>, 1953) von Regisseur <a href="Charles_Walters" title="Charles Walters">Charles Walters</a> mit <a href="Joan_Crawford" title="Joan Crawford">Joan Crawford</a>, <a href="Michael_Wilding_(Schauspieler)" title="Michael Wilding (Schauspieler)">Michael Wilding</a> und <a href="Gig_Young" title="Gig Young">Gig Young</a><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> und die TV-Produktion <i>Torch Song</i> (deutscher Titel <i>Die Macht der Liebe</i>, 1993) von Regisseur Michael Miller mit <a href="Raquel_Welch" title="Raquel Welch">Raquel Welch</a>, <a href="Jack_Scalia" title="Jack Scalia">Jack Scalia</a> und <a href="Alicia_Silverstone" title="Alicia Silverstone">Alicia Silverstone</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Ein Film über einen <a href="Schwul" title="Schwul">schwulen</a> Mann und seine Beziehungen ist der Film <i>Torch Song Trilogy</i> (deutscher Titel: <i><a href="Das_Kuckucksei_(1988)" title="Das Kuckucksei (1988)">Das Kuckucksei</a></i>) des Regisseurs <a href="Paul_Bogart" title="Paul Bogart">Paul Bogart</a> aus dem Jahr 1988 mit den Darstellern <a href="Harvey_Fierstein" title="Harvey Fierstein">Harvey Fierstein</a>, <a href="Matthew_Broderick" title="Matthew Broderick">Matthew Broderick</a>, <a href="Anne_Bancroft" title="Anne Bancroft">Anne Bancroft</a> und <a href="Brian_Kerwin" title="Brian Kerwin">Brian Kerwin</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Der Film beruht auf Fiersteins <a href="Tony_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Tony Award">Tony</a>-prämiertem gleichnamigen Bühnenstück.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Einzelnachweise">Einzelnachweise</h2></div>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Larry D. Smith: <i>Elvis Costello, Joni Mitchell and the Torch Song Tradition</i>. Praeger Publ., Westport, Conn. 2004, ISBN 0-275-97392-1, S. 9.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-forte-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-forte_2-0">a</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-forte_2-1">b</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text">Allan Forte: <i>Listening to Classic American Popular Songs</i>. Yale University Press, New Haven 2001, ISBN 0-300-08338-6, S. 203 (+ 1 CD).</span>
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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046446/"><i>Herzen im Fieber</i></a> bei <a href="IMDb" title="IMDb">IMDb</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107287/"><i>Die Macht der Liebe</i></a> bei <a href="IMDb" title="IMDb">IMDb</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-5">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="cite"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/flipps/2007/02/27/torch-song-trilogy-das-kuckucksei"><i>Flipps: Filme Serien Games - YouTube.</i></a><span class="Abrufdatum"> Abgerufen am 13. Juli 2022</span>.</span><span style="display: none;" class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fde.wikipedia.org%3ATorch+Song&rft.title=Flipps%3A+Filme+Serien+Games+-+YouTube&rft.description=Flipps%3A+Filme+Serien+Games+-+YouTube&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fflipps%2F2007%2F02%2F27%2Ftorch-song-trilogy-das-kuckucksei"> </span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-6">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096289/"><i>Das Kuckucksei</i></a> bei <a href="IMDb" title="IMDb">IMDb</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-7">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-show/torch-song-trilogy-8820">Torch Song Trilogy</a> in der <a href="Internet_Broadway_Database" title="Internet Broadway Database">Internet Broadway Database</a> (englisch)</span>
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