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Fishman, Howard.
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Converse, Connie, 1924-
Women composers -- United States -- Biography.
Composers -- United States -- Biography.
Women lyricists -- United States -- Biography.
Lyricists -- United States -- Biography.
Missing persons -- United States -- Biography.
Women singers -- United States -- Biography.
Singers -- United States -- Biography.
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Fishman, Howard.
Converse, Connie, 1924-
Women composers -- United States -- Biography.
Composers -- United States -- Biography.
Women lyricists -- United States -- Biography.
Lyricists -- United States -- Biography.
Missing persons -- United States -- Biography.
Women singers -- United States -- Biography.
Singers -- United States -- Biography.
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To
anyone
who
ever
asks
: the
life
,
music
, and
mystery
of
Connie
Converse
/ Howard Fishman.
by
Fishman, Howard.
Dutton, Penguin Random House LLC, 2023.
Call #:
781.642092 C766t
Subjects
Converse
,
Connie
, 1924-
Women composers -- United States -- Biography.
Composers -- United States -- Biography.
Women lyricists -- United States -- Biography.
Lyricists -- United States -- Biography.
Missing persons -- United States -- Biography.
Women singers -- United States -- Biography.
Singers -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780593187364 (hc)
Description:
ix, 564 p. : ill. (some color) ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"The mysterious true story of
Connie
Converse
-- a mid-century New York City songwriter, singer, and composer whose haunting
music
never found broad recognition -- and one writer’s quest to understand her
life
. This is the mesmerizing story of an enigmatic
life
. When musician and New Yorker contributor Howard Fishman first heard
Connie
Converse’s voice on a recording, he was convinced she could not be real. Her recordings were too good not to know, and too out of place for the 1950s to make sense -- a singer
who
seemed to bridge the gap between traditional Americana (country, blues, folk, jazz, and gospel), the Great American Songbook, and the singer-songwriter movement that exploded a decade later with Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell. And then there was the bizarre legend about
Connie
Converse
that had become the prevailing narrative of her
life
: that in 1974, at the age of fifty, she simply drove off one day and was never heard from again. Could this have been true?
Who
was
Connie
Converse
, really? Supported by a dozen years of research, travel to everywhere she lived, and hundreds of extensive interviews, Fishman approaches Converse’s story as both a fan and a journalist, and expertly weaves a narrative of her
life
and
music
, and of how it has come to speak to him as both an artist and a person. Ultimately, he places her in the canon as a significant outsider artist, a missing link between a now old-fashioned kind of American
music
and the reflective, complex, arresting
music
that transformed the 1960s and
music
forever. But this is also a story of deeply secretive New England traditions, of a woman
who
fiercely strove for independence and success when the odds were against her; a story that includes suicide, mental illness, statistics, siblings, oil paintings, acoustic guitars, cross-country road trips, 1950s Greenwich Village, an America marching into the Cold War, questions about sexuality, and visionary, forward thinking about race, class, and conflict. It’s a story and subject that is by turn hopeful, inspiring, melancholy, and chilling."--Publisher.
Genre:
Biographies.
Holds:
1
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Adult Biography
781.642092 C766t
Core Collection - Adult
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Jul 25, 2024
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Adult Biography
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