Billie Holiday : the musician and the myth /

Billie Holiday : the musician and the myth /

"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.

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Author / Creator: Szwed, John F., 1936- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: New York, New York: Viking, [2015]
Subjects:
Holiday, Billie, > 1915-1959.
Singers > United States > Biography.
Singers.
African American women singers.
African American women singers > United States > Biography.
United States.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The Myth
  • Chapter 1. The Book I: Lady Sings the Blues
  • Chapter 2. The Book II: The Rest of the Story
  • Chapter 3. The Image: Film, Television, and Photography
  • The Musician
  • Chapter 4. The Prehistory of a Singer
  • Chapter 5. The Singer I
  • Chapter 6. The Singer II
  • Chapter 7. The Songs I
  • Chapter 8. The Songs II
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index

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