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Queen of the blues : a biography of Dinah Washington / Jim Haskins.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML420.W2 H37 1987
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haskins, James, 1941-2005.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Washington, Dinah, 1924-1963.
- Washington, Dinah.
- Singers--United States--Biography.
- Singers.
- United States.
- Blues musicians--United States--Biography.
- Blues musicians.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 239 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First Edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1987.
- Contents:
- Of music and men
- On her own
- On the road
- Queen of the blues
- Of men and music
- Blues of the Queen
- Maybe I have met Heaven.
- Notes:
- "Book design by Jaye Zimet".
- Includes index.
- "Jacket design by Paul Perlow. Jacket lettering by Myron Hyroniawsky. Jacket photography copyright © by Chuck Stewart."
- "Dinah Washington's recordings": pages [203]-230.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0688048463 :
- OCLC:
- 14355106
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