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"Silence. That was the response at Cafe Society the first time Billie Holiday performed a song called "Strange Fruit." In the 1930s, Billie was known as a performer of jazz and blues music, but this song wasn't either of those things, . It was a song about injustice, and it would change her life forever. Discover how two outsiders - Billie Holiday, a young black woman raised in poverty, and Abel Meeropol, the son of Jewish immigrants- combined their...
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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.
6) Billie
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1 videodisc (96 min.) : digital, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Documentary on the famed jazz singer Billie Holiday, and her would-be biographer.
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1 videodisc (59 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Most presentations feature Lady Day as the sad victim of hard times and drugs. Mining a treasure trove of new information, the producers set the record straight - and beautifully. In a voice that is Billie-like in its rasping wiseness and its ring, stage and screen star Ruby Dee reads from Holiday's autobiography, Lady sings the blues.
11) Billie Holiday
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62 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 31 cm
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English
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"Born in Philadelphia in 1915, and dead too early in New York in 1959, Billie Holiday became a legendary jazz singer, even mythical. With her voice even now managing to touch so many people, we follow a reporter on the trail of the artist on behalf of a New York daily. Beyond the public scandals that marred the life of the star (alcohol, drugs, violence...), he seeks to restore the truth, revisiting the memory of Billie. Through this investigation,...
12) Billie Holiday
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80 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
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Español
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"Cien años después de su nacimiento, la inimitable voz de Billie Holiday sigue hechizando a los amantes de la buena música. Sus cualidades vocales, su dominio del swing y la intensidad de sus interpretaciones, fruto de las heridas que la vida le infligió desde una edad temprana, la convirtieron en una gran estrella del jazz, y a pesar de su prematura desaparición, su arte ha permanecido imborrable en nuestra memoria."
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