Maya Angelou's Autobiography 
.... in Los Angeles. There, she meets the legendary
Billie Holiday during the final months of the singer's life. Her quest for fulfillment ....
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Anita O'Day
.... She learned from the way
Billie Holiday held notes, "shaping and flatting for effect," and from Ella Fitzgerald's "sly, little-girl quality and her scatting" (O ....
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Strange Fruit
.... In Strange Fruit the lyrics of Lewis Allan (vocals by
Billie Holiday) overlap with the melody in a manner that evokes a similar list of adjectives to describe ....
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Blues and Dinah Washington
.... the rest of her life. She began to listen to secular music, coming to idolize
Billie Holiday. She perfected her flawless diction ....
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Harlem Renaissance
....
Billie Holiday, the great blues singer of the era, served as the inspiration of the rock group U2 in its song Angel of Harlem. Alicia's ....
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Rebirth in the Harlem Renaissance
.... Singers like Ella Fitzgerald,
Billie Holiday and others helped usher in the jazz and blues age, a period of "flappers" and ostentatious displays of wealth and ....
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The Oppression of Black Women
.... We see Brown's (311) submission after her beating, a submission in which she views herself as an image in a
Billie Holiday song, "If I get beat by my poppa, I ....
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Analysis of Two Elegies
.... to death. In O'Hara's The Day Lady Died, the speaker is mourning the loss of the great blues singer
Billie Holiday. In Simic's The ....
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Aretha Franklin
.... At first, Hammond "guided her in the direction of classic jazz and blues singers such as Bessie Smith and
Billie Holiday" (Helander 200). ....
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Aretha Franklin
.... At first, Hammond "guided her in the direction of classic jazz and blues singers such as Bessie Smith and
Billie Holiday" (Helander 200). ....
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Concept of Bisexaulity
.... involved with members of both sexes, many of whom have already been "claimed" by the gay community, from Oscar Wilde to Rock Hudson,
Billie Holiday, and even ....
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African American Art
.... In Souvenir IV a scroll of the departed features African American singers including Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, and
Billie Holiday. ....
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