Essays Tagged: "Billie Holiday"
Harlem Renaissance
avery was abolished it opened a pathway for many talented blacks. Female singers like Bessie Smith, Billie Holliday, and Marion Anderson emerged on the Music scene, with great talent, and Joyful spiri ... at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, making her debut in 1955 as Ulrica in 'A Masked Ballet'.Billie holiday was first introduced to jazz when she listened to her older brothers records of Louis ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism
The 1930s-1940s
n the silver screen. Blues and jazz music exploded onto the scene and musicians such as Lena Horne, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald dazzled all of America with their incredible talents. Big Band mu ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
James Byron Dean.
was African Tribal Mix, Afro-Cuban Songs and Dances, classical (Bartok, Stravinsky), Judy Garland, Billie Holiday, and Frank Sinatra. His favorite song was Billie Holiday's When Your Lover has Gone.T ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies
Sonny's blues/ reaction essay
if you have read the anguish of his brother as he struggles to understand, you know that just like Billie Holiday, whose songs he sings, Sonny's life may play out to the same end.The struggle with dr ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Discuss the issues surrounding the attempts to control the content of popular music
ooking back, the 50's had some of the most laughable incidences when songs were banned. There was a Billie Holiday song by the name of "Love for Sale," none of the radio stations were allowed to play ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies
Black Music during the Harlem Renaissance
spieb. History and Musical Talent of Charlie Parkerc. History and Musical Talent of Billie HolidayConclusions: The Effect of The Music and Musicians of Harlem Renaissance On Modern Mus ... ns; Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Josephine Baker, Edward "Duke" Ellington, Charlie Parker, and Billie Holiday. The Harlem Renaissance started as a literary and intellectual movement with a missio ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > African Studies - History
Madonna
t the time Madonna first arrived on the scene there hadn't been a strong female icon in music since Billie Holiday. Like Holiday, Madonna turned heads with her sexy attitude and approach to life, love ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers
Billie Holiday
can American performers endured many hardships to make it in the real world. Gardenia also known as Billie Holiday was an African American woman who was raised in a dysfunctional family, and lived in ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Beautifully Tormented "Lady Day"
Billie Holiday was born Eleanora Fagan Gough April 7th 1915 in Philadelphia. Her mother was thirteen ... ad a weak relationship with her father, who was a guitarist in Fletcher Henderson’s orchestra. Billie was sent to a Catholic reform school when she was ten, because she said that she was raped. E ... ped out of school when she was only in the fifth grade, and got a job running errands in a brothel. Billie and her mother moved to Harlem, where she was arrested for prostitution. After living in New ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers
Women in Jazz - History
Women basically emerged as Jazz singers by the start of1930. Some of them were Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday.Some of the famous women in the American Jazz history are:Bessie smith: "The Empress ... al time she was even dumped by Columbia, but she kept on struggling. She played as a substitute for Billie Holiday in various shows, and also played Apollo in 1935. From here, her good times were to s ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies
Untitled
for censoring music in the radio. ABC radio began by banning all of its network affiliates to play Billie Holiday's song "Love for Sale" because of its prostitution theme. ABC also was responsible fo ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies
Frank o haras the day lady die
th line, and he never states her name (except for the clever reversal of her nickname in the title).Billie Holiday, or Lady Day as she was called, is one of those luminous characters in history whose ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
The History of Jazz
The importance of Jazz and Blues made a significant role for African Americans.Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday brought blues style and blues feeling into popular music. These songs made us feel li ... eeling into popular music. These songs made us feel like they were some kind of window to the soul. Billie Holiday would express pain and loss in her songs that we could all relate to. Her feelings we ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies
Censorship Through the Ages
is incident spread to cover many artists, including Webb Pierce, T-bone Walker, Little Richard, and Billie Holiday.The 1960’s were a period of the unrest and protests from the counterculture. Thi ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies
Lynching in the 1930's
as viewed as a normal occurrence that was morally wrong in no way. In 1939, a controversial song by Billie Holiday called Strange Fruit expressed the presence of lynching in the South.“Southern t ... icans." Buzzle Web Portal: Intelligent Life on the Web. 20 May 2009. 04 Nov. 2009 ."Strange Fruit." Billie Holiday Songs. 04 Nov. 2009 .
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Contrasting Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald on "Summertime"
! "Summertime" is a song sung by both Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday with each of them holding their own meaning and interpretation of the lyrics by their ... ne too, involving all types of people into the world of music.! ! Listening to "Summertime" sung by Billie Holiday, provokes completely different thoughts than the ones that formulate when liste ... es completely different thoughts than the ones that formulate when listening to Ella's voice. Billie's voice can be compared to driving to work; simple and necessary. While it doesn't sound like ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers