Search Results - "Billie Holiday"

Shaping memories reflections of African American women writers /

Table of Contents: “…The night I stopped singing like Billie Holiday /…”
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Shaping memories reflections of African American women writers /

Table of Contents: “…The night I stopped singing like Billie Holiday /…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Black resonance : iconic women singers and African American literature / by Lordi, Emily J., 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Black resonance -- Vivid lyricism: Richard Wright and Bessie Smith's blues -- The timbre of sincerity: Mahalia Jackson's gospel sound and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man -- Understatement: James Baldwin, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday -- Haunting: Gayl Jones's Corregidora and Billie Holiday's "strange Fruit" -- Signature voices: Nikki Giovanni, Aretha Franklin, and the Black Arts movement -- Epilogue: "At Last": Etta James, poetry, hip hop.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Black resonance : iconic women singers and African American literature / by Lordi, Emily J., 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Black resonance -- Vivid lyricism: Richard Wright and Bessie Smith's blues -- The timbre of sincerity: Mahalia Jackson's gospel sound and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man -- Understatement: James Baldwin, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday -- Haunting: Gayl Jones's Corregidora and Billie Holiday's "strange Fruit" -- Signature voices: Nikki Giovanni, Aretha Franklin, and the Black Arts movement -- Epilogue: "At Last": Etta James, poetry, hip hop.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Modernism and popular music by Schleifer, Ronald

Table of Contents: “…Music without composition: Billie Holiday and ensemble performance; Postscript: popular music and the revolution of the word; Bibliography; Index.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Modernism and popular music by Schleifer, Ronald

Table of Contents: “…Music without composition: Billie Holiday and ensemble performance; Postscript: popular music and the revolution of the word; Bibliography; Index.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

The Race of Sound : Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music / by Eidsheim, Nina Sun, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Formal and informal pedagogies : believing in race, teaching race, hearing race -- Phantom genealogy : sonic Blackness and the American operatic timbre -- Familiarity as strangeness : Jimmy Scott and the question of Black timbral masculinity -- Race as zeros and ones : Vocaloid refused, reimagined, and repurposed -- Bifurcated listening : the inimitable, imitated Billie Holiday -- Widening rings of being : the singer as stylist and technician.…”
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The Race of Sound : Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music / by Eidsheim, Nina Sun, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Formal and informal pedagogies : believing in race, teaching race, hearing race -- Phantom genealogy : sonic Blackness and the American operatic timbre -- Familiarity as strangeness : Jimmy Scott and the question of Black timbral masculinity -- Race as zeros and ones : Vocaloid refused, reimagined, and repurposed -- Bifurcated listening : the inimitable, imitated Billie Holiday -- Widening rings of being : the singer as stylist and technician.…”
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