Billie Holiday
(2017)

Fiction

eBook

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : NBM Publishing, 2017
Made available through hoopla
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1 online resource

ISBN/ISSN
9781681120942 (electronic bk.) MWT11874053, 1681120941 (electronic bk.) 11874053
LANGUAGE
English
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Born in Baltimore 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, Mu̜oz and Sampayo trace, through the undertones of racism, and in the wake of the blues, the slow drift of a singer who expressed the deepest emotions in jazz. By internationally renowned Argentine artists, featuring Mu̜oz' strikingly raw heavy blacks, this is not just a biography but a spell-binding art book tribute

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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