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Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 24 cm
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
"Silence. That was the response at Cafe Society the first time Billie Holiday performed a song called "Strange Fruit." In the 1930s, Billie was known as a performer of jazz and blues music, but his song wasn't either of those things, . It was a song about injustice, and it would change her life forever. Discover how two outsiders- Billie Holiday, a young black woman raised in poverty, and Abel Meeropol, the son of Jewish immigrants- combined their...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
119 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm + 2 CDs (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Description
A tribute to more than two dozen legendary music artists who significantly influenced the landscape of music for generations to come, from Ray Charles and Bob Dylan to Chuck Berry and Johnny Cash.
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