Billie Holiday
The Musician and the Myth
New York, New York : Viking, 2015.
Format: Book
Description: 230 pages ; 24 cm
"Drawing on a vast amount of new material that has surfaced in the last decade, ... jazz writer John Szwed considers how [Holiday's] life inflected her art, her influences, her uncanny voice and rhythmic genius, a number of her signature songs, and her legacy"--Amazon.com.
Contents:
The book I : Lady sings the blues -- The book II : the rest of the story -- The image : film, television, photography -- The prehistory of a singer -- The singer I -- The singer II -- The songs I -- The songs II.
Subjects:
Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959.
Singers -- United States -- Biography.
African American women singers -- Biography.
Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959.
Singers -- United States -- Biography.
African American women singers -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780670014729
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Holiday, Billie | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |
BIOGRAPHY Holiday, Billie | Ballentine Indoors | Biography | In |
BIOGRAPHY Holiday, Billie | Northeast Indoors | Display, Biography | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-219) and index.