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Billie Holiday: ABiography, ISSN1540-4900Billie Holiday: A Biography, ISSN1540-4900 #122 pages #0313336296,9780313336294 #Meg Greene#Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007#2007Billie Holiday (1915-1959), thelegendary jazz singer whose vocalstylings were deeply affecting,continues to enthrall. This biographyconveys her hard-luck youth, careertriumphs, and then decline and earlydeath. At age 14, despite growing upwith an absentee musician father, littleschooling, a rape at 10, and jail timefor prostitution, this extraordinary girlmoved to New York City to find workas a dancer or singer. She soon becamethe toast of Harlem and went on totour and record with the biggest namesin jazz. Holiday's career took off inthe 1930s, during the Depression, andthe biography evokes the era andatmosphere of the jazz club scene. The

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state of race relations in the countryis discussed as Holiday tours withwhite bandleaders such as Artie Shawand even as she sings about lynchingin the controversial Strange Fruit. Thenarrative further chronicles Holiday'srelationships, descent into drugaddiction, the subsequent diminishmentof her talent, and tragic early death.Readers today will then want to seekout Holiday's recordings to more fullyappreciate her interpretations of thesongs of that classic era.DOWNLOAD http://resourceid.org/2ggUvdA.pdf

Billie Holiday #ISBN:9781473535275#John Szwed #320 pages #Mar 26, 2015#Today, Billie Holiday is an icon anartist whose voice has weatheredcountless shifts in public taste, andwhose impact on contemporary music isunquestionable. But when #Biography &AutobiographyDOWNLOAD http://resourceid.org/2ggYAOQ.pdf

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