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Alberta Hunter : a celebration in blues / Frank C. Taylor with Gerald Cook.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML420.H948 T4 1987
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taylor, Frank C.
- Cook, Gerald, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hunter, Alberta.
- Singers--United States--Biography.
- Singers.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xx, 311 pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1987.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Messing Around and Biding Her Time
- Making It to the Dreamland
- Climbing to Higher Ground
- Getting her Name up in Lights
- Commuting between Prejudice and Pride
- Jumping and Jiving with the U.S.A.
- Making her "Show" Go On ... and On
- Caring for the Sick and the Poor
- Coming Back and Laying it on 'Em
- Keeping her Shoes On.
- Notes:
- "Book design by Kathryn Parise."
- Includes index.
- Contains discography (pages 285-295) and videography (page 297).
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- "Jacket design by Alice Soloway. Front cover photo by Carlos Fenerich."
- ISBN:
- 0070631719 :
- OCLC:
- 15188768
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