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(0)John F Szwed
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230 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Drawing on a vast amount of new material that has surfaced in the last decade, ... jazz writer John Szwed considers how [Holiday's] life inflected her art, her influences, her uncanny voice and rhythmic genius, a number of her signature songs, and her legacy"--Amazon.com.
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404 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
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English
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"A biography of filmmaker, anthropologist, and mystic Harry Smith"--
He was an anthropologist, filmmaker, painter, folklorist, mystic, and walking encyclopedia -- and Szwed considers Harry Smith to be one of the twentieth century's most overlooked cultural figures. From his time recording the customs of Native American tribes in the Pacific Northwest and Florida to his life in Greenwich Village in its heyday, Smith was consumed by an unceasing desire...
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438 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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Folklorist, archivist, anthropologist, singer, political activist, talent scout, ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, concert and record producer, Alan Lomax is best remembered as the man who introduced folk music to the masses. Lomax began his career making field recordings of rural music for the Library of Congress and by the late 1930s brought his discoveries to radio, including Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Burl Ives. By the 1940s he was producing...