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BILLIE HOLIDAY

THE MUSICIAN AND THE MYTH
SZWED, JOHN

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Today, Billie Holiday is an icon an artist whose voice has weathered countless shifts in public taste, and whose impact on contemp orary music is unquestionable. But when eighteen-year-old Billie Holiday stepped into Columbia studios in November of 1933 to record Riffin the Scotch and Your Mothers Son-in-Law, no one could predict the sensation that was about to emerge/ marking the begin ning of what is arguably the most remarkable and important career in twentieth-century popular music.Drawing on revelatory new mater ial, including ...[Read more]

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DetailsVIKING USA
2015
240 Pages
Format: Otros
ISBN: 9780670014729
Language: INGLÉSCategory: Jazz

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