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By:Maya C. Gibson,The University of Wisconsin - Madison
Published on 2008 by ProQuest
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This dissertation examines the historical contexts of Billie Holiday's image and artistry, exploring her legendary self-invention in addition to configurations of her by jazz critics and biographers---both her contemporaries and recent scholars. It finds that shifts in Holiday's image---from tragic victim to triumphant heroine---parallel the growing legitimacy of jazz as a musical art form.
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