Billie Holliday

Standard Name: Holliday, Billie

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Maya Angelou
This book opens on a kind of prelude: with historical events in the US in 1957, with MA 's joining, with her young son, the beatnik brigade,
Angelou, Maya. The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou. Random House, 2004.
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and with a somewhat bruising encounter...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elaine Feinstein
Subjects of poems here include Dickens , Thomas and Jane Carlyle, Siegfried Sassoon , Anna Akhmatova , Bella Akhmadulina , Billie Holliday , and Raymond Chandler . In Betrayal, a reply to Shakespeare

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March 1939: Singer Billie Holliday caused a sensation...

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March 1939

Singer Billie Holliday caused a sensation by closing her show at a nightclub called Cafe Society on West 4th Street, New York, with Strange Fruit, a disturbing song about lynching, written by Abel Meeropol .
Lynskey, Dorian. “Politics, pain and pop”. Guardian Weekly, 4 Mar. 2011, pp. 25-7.
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