About this title: The complex life of jazz singing legend Billie Holiday is meticulously examined through the fitting medium of her music in Robert O'Meally's biography, LADY DAY. Columbia University professor O'Meally explores Holiday's early career in the after-hours clubs of Harlem, her musical maturity in the 1940s, and her declining years in the late 1950s. Breaking with the critical consensus, he finds much to admire in her later work. His portrait of Holiday reveals her as a woman of many conflicting impulses; she was openly gay, but still in thrall to her many male admirers, who often abused her; she ...
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Description: Very good. Ex-Library. Usual library stamps. Covers worn. YOUR PURCHASE BENEFITS LOCAL LIBRARIES. Ships within one business day. read more
Description: Reader copy. Ex-Public Library. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Light pencil marks on some pages. Binding reinforced with tape. Heavy shelf wear. Usual Library Stamps & Stickers. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A. : Arcade Publishing, Incorporated, 1991, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9781559701471ISBN:1559701471
Description: Fair in Fair jacket. Ex-Library. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Hard Cover. Fair/Fair. First Edition. Ex-Library. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Dead at 47. Killed by a lifetime of fast living with hard men and hard drugs. Singer of a troubled song learned from harsh firsthand experience: Billie Holiday, also known as Lady Day. Robert O'Meally reveals many hitherto unknown aspects of Lady kay's artistic history of Maerican jazz. In this lavishly illustrated book, the author enables us to discover the full ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth and Paper
Publisher: Arcade Publishing, New York
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9781559701471ISBN:1559701471
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. A pictorial biography of the great American jazz singer Billie Holiday. 207 pp. Richly illustrated with a plethora of b&w photographs. An attractive book of beautiful Lady Day. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Wrappers
Publisher: Arcade Publishing, Incorporated, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9781559702003ISBN:1559702001
Description: New. No Jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. 207pp. Illustrated. read more
Description: Good. Minimal damage to cover and binding. Pages show light use. With pride from Motor City. All books guaranteed. Best Service, Best Prices. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Arcade Pub
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9781559701471ISBN:1559701471
Description: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1559701471. Dustjacket and book both show almost no shelfwear. A very good copy. No markings. Protected in brodart. Music. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.; 0.9 x 7.8 x 7.8 Inches; 207 pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9781559701471ISBN:1559701471
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Clean, tight and unmarked. Looks almost new. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 207 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
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