Billie Holiday
Subtitle: the musician and the myth
By: John Szwed
Publisher: Viking; Penguin Books
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780670014729; 9780143107965
Subjects: Singers; African American women singers; Biography
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-219) and index.
Table of contents: title: The book I : Lady sings the blues; title: The book II : the rest of the story; title: The image : film, television, photography; title: The prehistory of a singer; title: The singer I; title: The singer II; title: The songs I; title: The songs II.