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Author : Billie Holiday
language : en
Publisher: Melville House
Release Date : 2019-07-30
Billie Holiday The Last Interview written by Billie Holiday and has been published by Melville House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The first-ever collection of interviews with the tortured but groundbreaking singer Billie Holiday, part of Melville House’s beloved Last Interview series Legendary singer Billie Holiday comes alive in this first-ever collection of interviews from throughout her career. Included is her last interview, given from her deathbed in a New York City hospital, where police were standing by ready to arrest her for a parole violation should she recover. Also included: The transcript of an interrogation by a US Customs official questioning about whether she'd violated her parole by using drugs on a foreign tour. But the book is more than a look at just the famously tragic side of her life. In other conversations, drawn from music magazines, late-night radio programs, and newspapers across the US and Canada, she discusses her childhood, musicians who influenced her, her friendship -- and falling out -- with the influential sax player Lester Young, why she chose the gardenia as her symbol, why she quit Count Basie's band, her substance abuse problems, writing songs and whether she wrote her own memoir, and more. In frank and open conversations, Billie Holiday proves herself far more articulate, aware, intelligent, and even heroic than the way she's often portrayed. This collection is an essential volume for all who have been moved by her music.
Bitter Crop
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Author : Paul Alexander
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2024-02-13
Bitter Crop written by Paul Alexander and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A revelatory look at the tumultuous life of a jazz legend and American cultural icon In the first biography of Billie Holiday in more than two decades, Paul Alexander—author of heralded lives of Sylvia Plath and J. D. Salinger—gives us an unconventional portrait of arguably America’s most eminent jazz singer. He shrewdly focuses on the last year of her life—with relevant flashbacks to provide context—to evoke and examine the persistent magnificence of Holiday’s artistry when it was supposed to have declined, in the wake of her drug abuse, relationships with violent men, and run-ins with the law. During her lifetime and after her death, Billie Holiday was often depicted as a down-on-her-luck junkie severely lacking in self-esteem. Relying on interviews with people who knew her, and new material unearthed in private collections and institutional archives, Bitter Crop—a reference to the last two words of Strange Fruit, her moving song about lynching—limns Holiday as a powerful, ambitious woman who overcame her flaws to triumph as a vital figure of American popular music.
Billie Holiday
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Author : John Szwed
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2015-03-31
Billie Holiday written by John Szwed and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-31 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
• Kirkus Best Books of 2015 selection for Biography • Published in celebration of Holiday’s centenary, the first biography to focus on the singer’s extraordinary musical talent 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.
Billie Holiday
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Author : Stuart Nicholson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Billie Holiday written by Stuart Nicholson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Singers categories.
"[A sensitive, perceptive biography. . . [Nicholson successfully portrays both the genius and the tragedy of the legendary Lady Day." -- Publishers Weekly
The Billie Holiday Companion
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Author : Leslie Gourse
language : en
Publisher: Schirmer Trade Books
Release Date : 1997
The Billie Holiday Companion written by Leslie Gourse and has been published by Schirmer Trade Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
One of the most troubling, and troubled, artists in the history of jazz, Billie Holiday remains an enigma despite numerous attempts to eulogize, analyze, and criticize her life and career. This new addition to Schirmer's Companion Series provides an objective assessment of "Lady Day's" life, talent, and of her place among the legends of jazz.
Billie Holiday
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Author : Donald Clarke
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-04-24
Billie Holiday written by Donald Clarke and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-24 with Music categories.
Certainly no singer has been more mythologized and more misunderstood than Billie Holiday, who helped to create much of the mystique herself with her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues. "Now, finally, we have a definitive biography," said Booklist of Donald Clarke's Billie Holiday, "by a deeply compassionate, respectful, and open-minded biographer [whose] portrait embraces every facet of Holiday's paradoxical nature, from her fierceness to her vulnerability, her childlikeness to her innate elegance and amazing strength." Clarke was given unrivaled access to a treasure trove of interviews from the 1970s—interviews with those who knew Lady Day from her childhood in the streets and good-time houses of Baltimore through the early days of success in New York and into the years of fame, right up to her tragic decline and death at the age of forty-four. Clarke uses these interviews to separate fact from fiction and, in the words of the Seattle Times, "finally sets us straight. . .evoking her world in all its anguish, triumph, force and irony." Newsday called this "a thoroughly riveting account of Holiday and her milieu." The New York Times raved that it "may be the most thoroughly valuable of the many books on Holiday," and Helen Oakley Dance in JazzTimes said, "We should probably have to wait a long time for another life of Billie Holiday to supersede Donald Clarke's achievement."
Religion Around Billie Holiday
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Author : Tracy Fessenden
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2019-10-16
Religion Around Billie Holiday written by Tracy Fessenden and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Soulful jazz singer Billie Holiday is remembered today for her unique sound, troubled personal history, and a catalogue that includes such resonant songs as “Strange Fruit” and “God Bless the Child.” Holiday and her music were also strongly shaped by religion, often in surprising ways. Religion Around Billie Holiday examines the spiritual and religious forces that left their mark on the performer during her short but influential life. Mixing elements of biography with the history of race and American music, Tracy Fessenden explores the multiple religious influences on Holiday’s life and sound, including her time spent as a child in a Baltimore convent, the echoes of black Southern churches in the blues she encountered in brothels, the secular riffs on ancestral faith in the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance, and the Jewish songwriting culture of Tin Pan Alley. Fessenden looks at the vernacular devotions scholars call lived religion—the Catholicism of the streets, the Jewishness of the stage, the Pentecostalism of the roadhouse or the concert arena—alongside more formal religious articulations in institutions, doctrine, and ritual performance. Insightful and compelling, Fessenden’s study brings unexpected materials and archival voices to bear on the shaping of Billie Holiday’s exquisite craft and indelible persona. Religion Around Billie Holiday illuminates the power and durability of religion in the making of an American musical icon.
If You Can T Be Free Be A Mystery
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Author : Farah Jasmine Griffin
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2001
If You Can T Be Free Be A Mystery written by Farah Jasmine Griffin and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Blues musicians categories.
The threads of Billie Holiday's mystique are unraveled in this study of a woman who needed to create art at any cost. Griffin liberates Holiday from stereotypes of black women and pries her away from the male tradition of jazz criticism while presenting Holiday's independent spirit. of photos.
With Billie
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Author : Julia Blackburn
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2012-10-10
With Billie written by Julia Blackburn and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From Julia Blackburn, an author whose ability to conjure lives from other times and places is so vivid that one suspects she sees ghosts, here is a portrait of a woman whose voice continues to haunt anyone who hears it. Billie Holiday’s life is inseparable from an account of her troubles, her addictions, her arrests, and the scandals that would repeatedly put her name in the tabloid headlines of the 1940s and 1950s. Those who knew her learned never to be surprised by what she might do. Her moods and faces were so various that she could seem to be a different woman from one moment to the next. Volatile, unpredictable, Billie Holiday remained, even to her friends, an elusive and perplexing figure. In With Billie, we hear the voices of those people–piano players and dancers, pimps and junkies, lovers and narcs, producers and critics, each recalling intimate stories of the Billie they knew. What emerges is a portrait of a complex, contradictory, enthralling woman, a woman who knew what really mattered to her. Reading With Billie, one is convinced that she has only just left the room but will return shortly.
Billie Holiday Her Life And Times
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Author : John White
language : en
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Release Date : 2012-04-10
Billie Holiday Her Life And Times written by John White and has been published by Omnibus Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-10 with Music categories.
The life and times of Billie Holiday.