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Judith Tick Becoming Ella Fitzgerald (Hardback)
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- Book Title
- Becoming Ella Fitzgerald : the Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song
- Publication Name
- Becoming Ella Fitzgerald
- Title
- Becoming Ella Fitzgerald
- Subtitle
- The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 039324105X
- EAN
- 9780393241051
- ISBN
- 9780393241051
- Publisher
- Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Music
- Topic
- Composers & Musicians, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Genres & Styles / Jazz
- Release Year
- 2024
- Release Date
- 26/01/2024
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 1.6in
- Item Length
- 9.6in
- Item Width
- 6.4in
- Item Weight
- 35.3 Oz
- Type
- Styles
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Number of Pages
- 592 Pages
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Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996) possessed one of the twentieth century's most astonishing voices. In this first major biography since Fitzgerald's death, historian Judith Tick offers a sublime portrait of this ambitious risk-taker whose exceptional musical spontaneity made her a transformational artist. Becoming Ella Fitzgerald clears up long-enduring mysteries. Archival research and in-depth family interviews shed new light on the singer's difficult childhood in Yonkers, New York, the tragic death of her mother, and the year she spent in a girls' reformatory school--where she sang in its renowned choir and dreamed of being a dancer. Rarely seen profiles from the Black press offer precious glimpses of Fitzgerald's tense experiences of racial discrimination and her struggles with constricting models of Black and white femininity at midcentury. Tick's compelling narrative depicts Fitzgerald's complicated career in fresh and original detail, upending the traditional view that segregates vocal jazz from the genre's mainstream. As she navigated the shifting tides between jazz and pop, she used her originality to pioneer modernist vocal jazz. Interpreting long-lost setlists, reviews from both white and Black newspapers, and newly released footage and recordings, the book explores how Ella's transcendence as an improvisor produced onstage performances every bit as significant as her historic recorded oeuvre. From the singer's first performance at the Apollo Theatre's famous "Amateur Night" to the Savoy Ballroom, where Fitzgerald broke through with Chick Webb's big band in the 1930s, Tick evokes the jazz world in riveting detail. She describes how Ella helped shape the bebop movement in the 1940s, as she joined Dizzy Gillespie and her then-husband, Ray Brown, in the world-touring Jazz at the Philharmonic, one of the first moments of high-culture acceptance for the disreputable art form. Breaking ground as a female bandleader, Fitzgerald refuted expectations of musical Blackness, deftly balancing artistic ambition and market expectations. Her legendary exploration of the Great American Songbook in the 1950s fused a Black vocal aesthetic and jazz improvisation to revolutionize the popular repertoire. This hybridity often confounded critics, yet throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Ella reached audiences around the world, electrifying concert halls, and sold millions of records. A masterful biography, Becoming Ella Fitzgerald describes a powerful woman who set a standard for American excellence nearly unmatched in the twentieth century.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
039324105x
ISBN-13
9780393241051
eBay Product ID (ePID)
24058623129
Product Key Features
Book Title
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald : the Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Composers & Musicians, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Genres & Styles / Jazz
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Music
Number of Pages
592 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.6in
Item Height
1.6in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
35.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ml420
Reviews
Thoughtful and thorough . . . trace[s] the singer through the vast variety of songs she sang, songs that not only defined Fitzgerald's career but which came to define what it is to be a jazz singer., [I]ncisive, doggedly researched . . . [Tick] proves an ideal guide to Fitzgerald's perpetual progress. She translates what she hears with lyrical clarity., [A] comprehensive and fascinating biography of an American music titan....Essential for casual fans of jazz and music history and Fitzgerald aficionados alike, this thoroughly impressive work will be hard to equal. As masterful and wonderful as its subject., At last, we know where Ella came from and how she became our beloved First Lady of Song. Becoming Ella Fitzgerald is a first-rate job of research and a great read., [Tick] exposes speculation, fills fissures with fact, and finds a fresh feminist heroine of transformative authority., Remarkable.... [O]pens up whole areas of her story that have seldom been explored in print, and in the process reveals a woman whose exceptional artistry infused a bewildering variety of material with a touch of genius., Tick illuminates the artist and her experiences with precision, insight, and fluency.... A defining, revelatory, and invaluable biography., In this radiant, rich, no-stone-unturned biography, Judith Tick shows us how Ella Fitzgerald 'became' not only one of America's greatest vocalists but a brilliant innovator who forever changed the status of 'the female singer' in her time and beyond., Becoming Ella Fitzgerald is a treasure--a comprehensive, deeply researched, and documented biography that finally gives Ella the complexity and depth that she deserves. Placing Fitzgerald in the intersection of race and gender at mid-twentieth century and overturning often repeated half-truths about her life and career, Tick highlights the beauty and artistry of Fitzgerald's voice and the full range of her genre-crossing career. Becoming Ella Fitzgerald is essential reading for anyone interested in the Ella, jazz, or American popular culture., Becoming Ella Fitzgerald offers a detailed account of the singer's life, even if she remains a somewhat enigmatic figure. It succeeds in arguing that Fitzgerald's legacy lies, in part, in how she forced an entire industry to become more accepting of talent--however it appears or sounds., "Ella Fitzgerald made becoming a great artist seem effortless. She hid her will, her drive, and her originality behind the mask of a modest, soft-spoken woman. Now, at last, Judith Tick shows exactly how Fitzgerald explored and shaped every form of American popular music. In the process she thwarted all the boundaries of class, race, and gender that threatened to confine her. Tick's musical knowledge is impeccable; so are her reporting and her scholarship. "I won't be left behind," Fitzgerald used to vow. This stirringly complete biography ensures that she never will be.", A magisterial biography...rendered in luxuriant prose.... This is a superior addition to the shelf on America's jazz legends., More than a decade in the making, Becoming Ella Fitzgerald is a biography truly worthy of the 'First Lady of Song'., Judith Tick's much-needed updated biography uses new research and keen musicology, and brings forth a revealing and fully convincing portrait of Lady Ella as visionary, social activist, and still-modern singer., Ella Fitzgerald made becoming a great artist seem effortless. She hid her will, her drive, and her originality behind the mask of a modest, soft-spoken woman. Now, at last, Judith Tick shows exactly how Fitzgerald explored and shaped every form of American popular music. In the process she thwarted all the boundaries of class, race, and gender that threatened to confine her. Tick's musical knowledge is impeccable; so are her reporting and her scholarship. 'I won't be left behind,' Fitzgerald used to vow. This stirringly complete biography ensures that she never will be.
Dewey Decimal
782.42165092
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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