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By not lip-syncing Amy Winehouse’s songs, actress Marisa Abela confronts impossible expectations in ‘Back to Black’

  • Written by Katherine Meizel, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, Bowling Green State University
imageActress Marisa Abela and actor Eddie Marsan film a scene for the Amy Winehouse biopic 'Back to Black' in London.Neil Mockford/GC Images via Getty Images

Like Amy Winehouse, “Back to Black,” the new biopic about the late British singer, has been no stranger to controversy.

In the case of the film, opinion has been fiercely split about...

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