Billie Holiday The Musician and the Myth

Name: Billie Holiday The Musician and the Myth
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ISBN: 9780143107965

ISBN-10: 0143107968

ISBN-13: 9780143107965

Edition: N/A

Authors: John Szwed

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Revelatory . . . one of the most briskly revealing pieces of jazz biography that I ve read. Richard Brody, "The New Yorker"When Billie Holiday first stepped into a recording studio 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 popular taste, and today 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…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/1/2016
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.40" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English