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Billie Holiday - A Biography (Hardcover)
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Billie Holiday - A Biography (Hardcover)
Series: Greenwood Biographies
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Billie Holiday (1915-1959), the legendary jazz singer whose vocal
stylings were deeply affecting, continues to enthrall. This
biography conveys her hard-luck youth, career triumphs, and then
decline and early death. At age 14, despite growing up with an
absentee musician father, little schooling, a rape at 10, and jail
time for prostitution, this extraordinary girl moved to New York
City to find work as a dancer or singer. She soon became the toast
of Harlem and went on to tour and record with the biggest names in
jazz. Holiday's career took off in the 1930s, during the
Depression, and the biography evokes the era and atmosphere of the
jazz club scene. The state of race relations in the country is
discussed as Holiday tours with white bandleaders such as Artie
Shaw and even as she sings about lynching in the controversial
"Strange Fruit." The narrative further chronicles Holiday's
relationships, descent into drug addiction, the subsequent
diminishment of her talent, and tragic early death. Readers today
will then want to seek out Holiday's recordings to more fully
appreciate her interpretations of the songs of that classic era.
General
Imprint: |
Greenwood Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Greenwood Biographies |
Release date: |
November 2006 |
First published: |
October 2006 |
Authors: |
Meg Greene
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Dimensions: |
235 x 156 x 14mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
144 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-313-33629-4 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-313-33629-6 |
Barcode: |
9780313336294 |
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