1. Definitions
A) Blues-A state of depression or melancholy. Often used with the.
B) Jazz-A style of music, native to America, characterized by a strong but flexible rhythmic understructure with solo and ensemble improvisations on basic tunes and chord patterns and, more recently, a highly sophisticated harmonic idiom.
C) "Lady Sings the Blues"-A song writen by jazz singer Billie Holiday, and jazz pianist Herbie Nicholas, which chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday. Her late childhood, stint as a prostitute, early tours, marriages and drug addiction are featured.
2.Summarization
Billie Holiday(April 7, 1915-July 17, 1959).Nick name Lady Day, born Eleanora Fagan,was an American jazz singer and singwriter. In the book "Lady Sings the blues" is basically talked about Lady Day's life. Billie born in a young and poor family, "'Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen, and I was three''(Billie).Her father was a guitarist in Fletcher Henderson's orchestra, and played a significant role in Billie's musical apprenticeship. Later years Billie's father divorced with her mohter and gave none money for them to live, so Billie and her mother worked hard to earn money for lives. Even though Billie faced many obstacle during her life, she still trys her best to overcame it, and became a famous jazz singer and song writer in front of the stage and to show the people her successful. Billie Holiday wrote many songs which symbolysis her life and the thing happened in the period of the time.
"I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music; it's close drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music"(Billie).
3.Question
Billie Holiday loves music and respects music.And she became a famous jazz singer. Why/How she used music to represent her life, and how did she overcome and face optimistic obstacles in her life, if there's no one can help?
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Billie Holiday used music as an almost therapeutic form to leave reality but not deny it. She used music to represent her life with her way of singing, the manner that she sang in. She overcame obstacles with faith in her music. Truly music was the only thing that had been there with her all the time. In a way, music is the "my man" that Holiday refers to in the end.
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