Ebook {Epub PDF} Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth by John Szwed

 · John Szwed’s swift, conversational and yet detail-rich new biography, Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth, communicates its artist-first Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins.  · Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth: Author: John Szwed: Publisher: Penguin, ISBN: , Length: pages: SubjectsAuthor: John Szwed.  · In his new study “ Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth ” (Viking), author John Szwed investigates and clarifies the back story of “Lady Sings the Blues” and attempts to separate Holiday’s musical triumphs from her dysfunctional life. In an unusual approach, Szwed opens his text by discussing Holiday’s bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 6 mins.

Now, on the centennial of her birth, John Szwed, a veteran biographer and jazz musician, seeks to redress this imbalance with his valuable "Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth. "Billie Holiday's fabled personal crises, the struggles against chemical dependency, sexual abuse and racism, have long threatened to overshadow her Promethean stature as an artist. Now, on the centennial of her birth, John Szwed, a veteran biographer and jazz musician, seeks to redress this imbalance Mr. Praise for Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth "Mr. Szwed, the author of acclaimed studies of Miles Davis, Sun Ra and folklorist Alan Lomax, is at his best when excavating hidden stories behind some of the more durable pillars of the Holiday legend." --The Wall Street Journal " Revelatory.

BILLIE HOLIDAY The Musician and the Myth. When Billie Holiday stepped into Columbia’s studios in November , 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. Billie Holiday, circa , in a photo taken for Downbeat magazine. John Szwed says his new book about her is not a biography but rather a look at how Holiday’s art related to her life. (William. John Szwed is an anthropologist and jazz scholar, He is the author of Billie Holiday: The Muscian and th Myth, So What: The Life of Miles Davis and Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World. Other publications range from anthropological studies of Newfoundland and the West Indies to to record liner notes and jazz journalism.