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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Billie Holiday"”.
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Homage to Eleanora: A Musical Journey through the Billie Holiday Songbook
<p>Billie Holiday was a singer, songwriter, vocalist, bandleader and composer in the fields of music, black culture and more specifically the genre of jazz. The primary focus of this study is Billie Holiday’s discography, music, and compositions as treated in relation to the black culture of …
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Billie's Message: An original dance-drama in the modern dance idiom
Billie's Message is a forty-five minute dance drama expressing through dance and narrative the life of Billie Holiday and the consequences of drug abuse in Holiday's life. It was created in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Education (MEd) degree. The project was presented …
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Constructions of the Muse: Blues Tribute Poems in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century American Poetry
… artists: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Huddie Ledbetter (Leadbelly), and Robert Johnson. Despite extensive scholarship on the blues and these icons, blues tribute poems have remained un(der)studied. Filling in this critical gap, I draw attention to the valuable …