Billie Holiday : the musician and the myth
(2015)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
BIOGRAPHY/HOLIDAY,B
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, New York : Viking, 2015
DESCRIPTION
230 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780670014729 (hbk.), 0670014729 (hbk.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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
"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