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Series
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
In The Race of Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim traces the ways in which sonic attributes that might seem natural, such as the voice and its qualities, are socially produced. Eidsheim illustrates how listeners measure race through sound and locate racial subjectivities in vocal timbre--the color or tone of a voice. Eidsheim examines singers Marian Anderson, Billie Holiday, and Jimmy Scott as well as the vocal synthesis technology Vocaloid to show how listeners...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
viii, 375 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Crosby, Holiday, Sinatra, Fitzgerald, Garland, and Streisand were the major interpreters of the American songbook, and this is the interlocking story of their lives and careers. Here is the epic tale of how these artists dominated American popular music over a fifty-year period, a roller coaster ride that gains momentum through the 1930s and '40s, reaches a crest of magical creativity in the 1950s and early '60s, and then crashes down by the early...
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
870L
Physical Desc
36 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
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 her 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...
6) Billie
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.): digital, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Documentary on the famed jazz singer Billie Holiday, and her would-be biographer.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
353 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A revelatory look at the tumultuous life of a jazz legend and American cultural icon"--
In the first biography of Billie Holiday in more than two decades, Paul Alexander--author of heralded lives of Sylvia Plath and J. D. Salinger--gives us an unconventional portrait of arguably America's most eminent jazz singer. He shrewdly focuses on the last year of her life--with relevant flashbacks to provide context--to evoke and examine the persistent magnificence...
9) With Billie
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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