TY  - BOOK
AU  - Szwed,John F.
ED  - Browns Books
TI  - Billie Holiday
SN  - 9781473535275 (ePub ebook) :
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London
PB  - Cornerstone Digital
KW  - Holiday, Billie,
KW  - Jazz
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - United States
KW  - Music
KW  - ukslc
KW  - thema
KW  - Biography: arts & entertainment
KW  - Popular music
KW  - History
KW  - Social & cultural history
KW  - Biography: general
KW  - Music reviews & criticism
KW  - Composers & songwriters
KW  - Musicians, singers, bands & groups
KW  - Ethnic studies
N2  - Today, Billie Holiday is an icon - an artist whose voice has weathered countless shifts in public taste, and whose impact on contemporary 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 Mother's Son-in-Law', no one could predict the sensation that was about to emerge; marking the beginning of what is arguably the most remarkable and important career in twentieth-century popular music. Drawing on revelatory new material, including unpublished memoirs and interviews, Billie Holiday is the first account to consider the singer as an artist, her influences, her uncanny voice and rhythmic genius, a number of her signature songs, and her legacy
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