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The Musician and the Myth
Billie Holiday - Book - by John Szwed
(2015)
When Billie Holiday stepped into Columbia s studios in November 1933, it
marked the beginning of what is arguably the most remarkable and
influential career in twentieth-century popular music. Her voice
weathered countless shifts in public taste, and new reincarnations of
her continue to arrive, most recently in the form of singers like Amy
Winehouse and Adele.
Most of the writing on Holiday has focused on
the tragic details of her life her prostitution at the age of fourteen,
her heroin addiction and alcoholism, her series of abusive relationships
or tried to correct the many fabrications of her autobiography. But
now, Billie Holiday stays close to the music, to her performance style, and to the self she created and put into print, on record and on stage.
Drawing
on a vast amount of new material that has surfaced in the last decade,
critically acclaimed jazz writer John Szwed considers how her life
inflected her art, her influences, her uncanny voice and rhythmic
genius, a number of her signature songs, and her legacy."
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