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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Szwed, John F., 1936-     Subjects     Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959.     Women jazz singers, Black -- United States -- Biography.     Women jazz singers -- United States -- Biography.     Jazz singers, Black -- United States -- Biography.     Jazz singers -- United States -- Biography.     Jazz musicians, Black -- United States -- Biography.     Jazz musicians -- United States -- Biography.     Singers, Black -- United States -- Biography.     Women, Black -- United States -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Szwed, John F., 1936-       by title:      Billie Holiday : the...       by call number:      781.65092 H732s     Search the Web     Szwed, John F., 1936-     Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959.     Women jazz singers, Black -- United States -- Biography.     Women jazz singers -- United States -- Biography.     Jazz singers, Black -- United States -- Biography.     Jazz singers -- United States -- Biography.     Jazz musicians, Black -- United States -- Biography.     Jazz musicians -- United States -- Biography.     Singers, Black -- United States -- Biography.     Women, Black -- United States -- Biography.       MARC Display

Billie Holiday : the musician and the myth / John Szwed. by Szwed, John F., 1936- Viking, 2015. Call #: 781.65092 H732s Subjects Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959.   Women jazz singers, Black -- United States -- Biography.   Women jazz singers -- United States -- Biography.   Jazz singers, Black -- United States -- Biography.   Jazz singers -- United States -- Biography.   Jazz musicians, Black -- United States -- Biography.   Jazz musicians -- United States -- Biography.   Singers, Black -- United States -- Biography.   Women, Black -- United States -- Biography. ISBN:  9780670014729 0670014729 Description:  230 p. ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-219) and index. Summary:  "When Billie Holiday stepped into Columbia’s studios in November 1933, it marked the beginning of what is arguably the most remarkable and influential career in twentieth-century popular music. Her voice weathered countless shifts in public taste, and new reincarnations of her continue to arrive, most recently in the form of singers like Amy Winehouse and Adele. Most of the writing on Holiday has focused on the tragic details of her life--her prostitution at the age of fourteen, her heroin addiction and alcoholism, her series of abusive relationships--or tried to correct the many fabrications of her autobiography. But now, Billie Holiday stays close to the music, to her performance style, and to the self she created and put into print, on record and on stage. Drawing on a vast amount of new material that has surfaced in the last decade, critically acclaimed jazz writer John Szwed considers how her life inflected her art, her influences, her uncanny voice and rhythmic genius, a number of her signature songs, and her legacy."--From publisher. Genre:  Biographies. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Captain William Spry Public Library Adult Black Nonfiction 781.65092 H732s Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Halifax North Memorial Public Library Adult Black Nonfiction 781.65092 H732s Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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