Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Cafe Society, and an Early Cry for Civil Rights. (Reviews).(Book Review)Daniels, Douglas Henry
Performance as a Force for Change: The Case of Billie Holiday and "Strange Fruit" Pays tribute to the late Billie Holiday, a singer who died in 1959, with reference to her song `Strange Fruit.' Aim of the song; Where the song was first p... D Margolick - 《Vanity Fair》 被引量:...
Child is Father to the Man, it had been groundbreaking, particularly in its incorporation of a jazz-informed horn section. The album had largely been the vision of founder Al Kooper—the keyboardist had written and sung several of the band...
Billie Holiday had a difficult upbringing which influenced her attitude toward life. She experienced many violent relationships. She also became increasingly dependent on various drugs which contributed to her early death in 1959, aged just 44.
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Billie Holiday became a legend in her short lifetime-she died in 1959,aged only 44.Her unique voice made her the outstanding jazz singer of her day.She had an unforgettable voice,full of depth and sadness,which was nourished (滋养) by a lifetime of hardship and a background of racism....
Perhaps thanks to a growing Hispanic population in the United States (and films like “Coco” and “The Book of Life”), there’s been a rising awareness of the Mexican holiday of Dia de Los Muertos. Taking place on Nov. 1 and 2 of every year, this festival honoring deceased loved one...
so much so that I’ve had to make one bar 5/4 to get back to his performance. Though close to what he sings in the first verse, the effect of formalising this music is to fit it into a straightjacket that ties up and restricts the freedom of his real-life playing, pushing and ...
Phil’s fellow prognosticators: From Sun Prairie Jimmy to Woody the Woodchuck, there’s a host of critters across the U.S. making weather predictions today. So far, consensus points towards an early spring. Groundhog Day’s origins: The tradition is rooted in European agricultural life, but...
“Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington,” he writes that Ellington began writing his masterpiece, the “Black, Brown and Beige” suite, in 1942 backstage at the State Theater where his band was sharing the bill with Frank Sinatra. Early in 1943, the grandiose work, which had begun in humble...