Louisa Matthiasdottir The Smal

Jed Perl

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ISBN 10: 0933920660 ISBN 13: 9780933920668

Published by Hudson Hills, 1986

Language: English

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Title

Louisa Matthiasdottir The Smal

Publisher

Hudson Hills

Publication Date

1986

Language

English

ISBN 10

0933920660

ISBN 13

9780933920668

Binding

Hardcover

Condition

Good

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The artist's dazzling landscapes, still lifes, and self-portraits are a defining achievement of postwar American art, uniting bold colour, spare geometric composition, and naturalistic observation. Matthiasdottir returned regularly to her native Iceland, the subject of much of her work.

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In the first part of this wide-ranging survey, a noted British musicologist traces the metamorphosis of popular female singing from the blues of Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith to the club and cabaret work of Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Betty Carter, and the soul singing of Nina Simone and Aretha Franklin. Then he covers the jazz exploits of such white women as Mildred Bailey and Peggy Lee, the "rural" folksong revivals of Joan Baez and Judy Collins, the country songs of Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt. The longest sectiondescribing "the New Eve's search for social and creative identity in her New Ethnic Garden"ranges from Joni Mitchell and Carly Simon to Janis Joplin, Laura Nyro, Rickie Lee Jones and Laurie Anderson. Oddly, Mellers has included, in addition to a discography, a glossary defining classical music terms that are hardly mentioned, if at all, in the text. Photos not seen by PW.
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