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100 1 $aGriffin, Farah Jasmine.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no95046194
245 10 $aIf you can't be free, be a mystery :$bin search of Billie Holiday /$cFarah Jasmine Griffin.
260 $aNew York :$bFree Press,$c[2001], ©2001.
300 $axv, 240 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 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.
520 8 $aInstead 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."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aHoliday, Billie,$d1915-1959.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50033023
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