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Billie Holiday by John Szwed
24.99 AUD
Category: Film & Music | Reading Level: very good
Today, Billie Holiday is an icon - an artist whose voice has weathered countless shifts in public taste, and whose impact on contemporary music is unquestionable. But when eighteen-year-old Billie Holiday stepped into Columbia studios in November of 1933 to record 'Riffin' the Scotch' and 'Your Mother's ...Show more
Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith by John Szwed
59.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
He was an anthropologist, a filmmaker, a painter, a folklorist, a mystic, and a walking encyclopedia. He taught Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe about the occult, swapped drugs with Timothy Leary, jammed with Thelonious Monk, lived with Allen Ginsberg, and received one of the first Guggenheim grants. ...Show more
Man Who Recorded the World : A Biography of Alan Lomax by John Szwed
19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Writer, musicologist, archivist, singer, DJ, filmmaker, record, radio and TV producer, Alan Lomax was a man of many parts. Without him the history of popular music would have been very different. Armed with a tape-recorder and his own near-flawless good taste, Lomax spent years travelling the US, partic ...Show more
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