Wishing on the moon : the life and times of Billie Holiday

著者

• Clarke, Donald

書誌事項

Wishing on the moon : the life and times of Billie Holiday

Donald Clarke

（Penguin books）

Penguin, 1995

注記

Originally published: London : Viking, 1994

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This biography of Billie Holliday describes the music business and club scene of her youth and her childhood in Baltimore (where the author suspects she was a teenage prostitute and an abused child) before she became a dancer and then a singer. The book presents her life and achievements in the context of the music industry of the period. With accounts of the recording sessions and club dates, in chronological order.

目次

• An African-American nation
• Baltimore
• the point
• Harlem
• the first records, and triumph at the Apollo
• the Teddy Wilson era
• the street that never slept
• on the road with the big bands
• 1937-9 - strange fruit
• the war years
• triumph and trouble
• the jailbird
• the gangster and bassist
• the last decade begins
• the last merry-go-round - fun, fights and fame
• intimations of mortality
• the triumphanant decline of lady day
• the loneliest girl in the world
• coda - the lady is an icon.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA25989519
• ISBN:
  • 0140147489
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Harmondsworth, Middlesex
• ページ数/冊数: xi, 468 p., [16] p. of plates
• 大きさ: 20 cm
• 分類:
  • DC20 : 782.421642092
• 件名:
  • BLSH : Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA00474814