Billie Holiday: Her Life and Times
Author: John White
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Published: 2012-04-10
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 0857128248
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Author: John White
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Published: 2012-04-10
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 0857128248
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Author: Carole Boston Weatherford
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
Published: 2008-10-01
Total Pages: 118
ISBN-13: 1629791733
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCoretta Scott King Author Honor Award The stunning voice and hard life of legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday is revealed through evocative, accessible poetry. In 1915, Sadie Fagan gave birth to a daughter she named Eleanora. The world, however, would know her as Billie Holiday, possibly the greatest jazz singer of all time. Eleanora's journey to become a legend took her through pain, poverty, and run-ins with the law. By the time she was fifteen, she knew she possessed something that could possibly change her life--a voice. Eleanora could sing. Her remarkable voice led her to a place in the spotlight with some of the era's hottest big bands. Through a sequence of raw and poignant poems, New York Times best-selling and award-winning poet Carole Boston Weatherford chronicles the singer's young life, her fight for survival, and the dream she pursued with passion.
Author: Donald Clarke
Publisher: Penguin Mass Market
Published: 1995-10-01
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780140247541
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo singer has been more mythologized and more misunderstood than jazz legend Billie Holiday. This biography separates fact from fiction to reveal Lady Day in all stages of her short, tragic life.
Author: Billie Holiday
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2006-07-25
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0767923863
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPerfect for fans of The United States vs. Billie Holiday, this is the fiercely honest, no-holds-barred memoir of the legendary jazz, swing, and standards singing sensation—a fiftieth-anniversary edition updated with stunning new photos, a revised discography, and an insightful foreword by music writer David Ritz Taking the reader on a fast-moving journey from Billie Holiday’s rough-and-tumble Baltimore childhood (where she ran errands at a whorehouse in exchange for the chance to listen to Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith albums), to her emergence on Harlem’s club scene, to sold-out performances with the Count Basie Orchestra and with Artie Shaw and his band, this revelatory memoir is notable for its trenchant observations on the racism that darkened Billie’s life and the heroin addiction that ended it too soon. We are with her during the mesmerizing debut of “Strange Fruit”; with her as she rubs shoulders with the biggest movie stars and musicians of the day (Bob Hope, Lana Turner, Clark Gable, Benny Goodman, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, and more); and with her through the scrapes with Jim Crow, spats with Sarah Vaughan, ignominious jailings, and tragic decline. All of this is told in Holiday’s tart, streetwise style and hip patois that makes it read as if it were written yesterday.
Author: Tracy Fessenden
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2019-10-16
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 027108720X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSoulful 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.
Author: John Szwed
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2015-03-31
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1101614706
DOWNLOAD EBOOK• 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.
Author: Gary Golio
Publisher: Millbrook Press (Tm)
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 1467751235
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTells the story of how Billie Holiday and songwriter Abel Meeropol combined their talents to create "Strange Fruit," the iconic protest song that brought attention to lynching and racism in America.
Author: John White
Publisher:
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 144
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Szwed
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2016-03
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0143107968
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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: Stuart Nicholson
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780575056312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA biography of the jazz vocalist, Billie Holiday, who died from a drug overdose in 1959. As well as a discussion of her music, this text covers her drug addiction, masochistic promiscuity and alcoholism, and examines the racial prejudice and legal harassment she suffered all her life.