Bitter crop: the heartache and triumph of Billie Holiday's last year
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In this unconventional portrait of arguably America’s most eminent jazz singer, the author shrewdly focuses on the last year of her life—with relevant flashbacks to provide context—to evoke and examine the persistent magnificence of Holiday’s artistry when it was supposed to have declined, in the wake of her drug abuse, relationships with violent men, and run-ins with the law. During her lifetime and after her death, Billie Holiday was often depicted as a down-on-her-luck junkie severely lacking in self-esteem. Relying on interviews with people who knew her, and new material unearthed in private collections and institutional archives, Bitter Crop—a reference to the last two words of Strange Fruit, her moving song about lynching—limns Holiday as a powerful, ambitious woman who overcame her flaws to triumph as a vital figure of American popular music
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African American Nonfiction
African Americans
African Americans -- Biography
African American women jazz singers
African American women jazz singers -- Biography
Biographies
Biography & Autobiography
Blues musicians
Blues musicians -- United States -- Biography
Holiday, Billie
Holiday, Billie, -- 1915-1959
Holiday, Billie, -- 1915-1959 -- Last years
Last years
Nonfiction
African Americans
African Americans -- Biography
African American women jazz singers
African American women jazz singers -- Biography
Biographies
Biography & Autobiography
Blues musicians
Blues musicians -- United States -- Biography
Holiday, Billie
Holiday, Billie, -- 1915-1959
Holiday, Billie, -- 1915-1959 -- Last years
Last years
Nonfiction
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African Americans -- Biography
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Bitter crop : the heartache and triumph of Billie Holiday's last year
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Bitter Crop The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year
Bitter crop : the heartache and triumph of Billie Holiday's last year / Paul Alexander
Bitter crop : the heartache and triumph of Billie Holiday's last year / Paul Alexander
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African Americans
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Holiday, Billie
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