An edition of Lady sings the blues (1956)

Lady sings the blues [book & CD]

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An edition of Lady sings the blues (1956)

Lady sings the blues [book & CD]

50th anniversary ed

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  • ★★★★★ 5.00 ·
  • 2 Ratings
  • 72 Want to read
  • 8 Currently reading
  • 3 Have read

In a memoir that is as poignant, lyrical, and dramatic as her legendary performances, Billie Holiday tells her own story. She recalls a turbulent adolescence in Harlem during the 1920s, the excitement of working in New York City's famous jazz clubs with the musicians who brought jazz to the forefront of American culture, and her own dazzling rise to the top. The darker side of the Holiday legend is here too: the men who exploited her, the racial prejudice she encountered, and her harrowing struggle with heroin addiction.

"Little in the striking opening of Lady Sings the Blues is factual, ... And no one who knew her can imagine Billie Holiday, even young, scrubbing steps - a favorite part of her myth of herself. Lady Sings the Blues is a faithful rendition of that myth. ..." Phyllis Rose in The Norton Book of Women's Lives

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Broadway Books
Language
English
Pages
227

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Subjects
Jazz, Zangeressen, Correspondence, reminiscences, Musicians, Discography, Singers, African American women jazz singers, Biography, Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959, Jazz singers, Composers & Musicians - Jazz, People of Color, General, Biography/Autobiography, Women, Black Musicians And Their Music, Holiday, Billie,, Biography & Autobiography, Biography / Autobiography, Entertainment & Performing Arts - General, United States, Music / General, 1915-1959, Genres & Styles - Jazz, Music, Singers, biography, Singers, united states
People
Billie Holiday (1915-1959)
Places
United States

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Lady sings the blues [book & CD]
2006, Broadway Books
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Lady sings the blues
1984, Penguin Books
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New York

Edition Notes

Originally published: New York : Doubleday, c1956

Discography: p. 227-231

Compact disc accompanying this book shelved in the Music Listening Center

Genre
Biography

Classifications

Library of Congress
ML420.H58 A3 2006, ML420.H58A3 2006

The Physical Object

Pagination
xv, 227 p., [8] p. of plates :
Number of pages
227

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL17200588M
Internet Archive
ladysingsblues0000holi
ISBN 10
0767923863
LCCN
2007271682
OCLC/WorldCat
70688790
Library Thing
66277
Goodreads
92969

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