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100 1 $aGriffin, Farah Jasmine.
245 10 $aIf you can't be free, be a mystery :$bin search of Billie Holiday /$cFarah Jasmine Griffin.
246 30 $aIn search of Billie Holiday
260 $aNew York :$bBallantine Books,$c©2002.
300 $axv, 240 pages :$billustrations ;$c21 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 219-223) and index.
520 1 $a"Singer, composer, actress, lover, wife, writer, pleasure seeker, drug addict, icon, commodity, myth and mystery: Billie Holiday is still one of the most famous jazz vocalists of all time. But Holiday's image - the gifted torch singer with insatiable appetites for food, sex, alcohol and drugs - is not the full story. Farah Jasmine Griffin's enchanting investigation of Holiday, her world and how she is remembered, at last fully liberates Lady Day from the tragic songstress myth."
520 8 $a"Griffin argues that the stereotype of a black woman who can always take center stage to command an audience because of her incredible ability to feel, but not to think, continues to hide the real Holiday from public view. Instead of a mindless "natural" with incredible talent but no discipline, Griffin's Holiday is a jazz virtuoso whose passion and technique made every song she sang forever hers. Instead of being helpless against the racism, sexism and poverty that dominated her life, Holiday is an artist, willing to pay a tremendous price to change the sound of jazz forever. And far from being a victim of overwhelming obstacles, Lady Day is an independent spirit whose greatest legacy is that all hurdles can be overcome, whatever the odds."
600 10 $aHoliday, Billie,$d1915-1959.
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776 08 $iOnline version:$aGriffin, Farah Jasmine.$tIf you can't be free, be a mystery.$dNew York : Ballantine Books, ©2002$w(OCoLC)606075285
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