- Gebundene Ausgabe: 464 Seiten
- Verlag: Pantheon; Auflage: 1 (2. Februar 2010)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0375424016
- ISBN-13: 978-0375424014
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 16,4 x 3,6 x 24,3 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 406.271 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Queen: The Life and Music of Dinah Washington
“Nadine Cohodas’s superb biography restores the luster of Washington’s crown, detailing a life lived not always wisely but certainly with vigor.”
—The Boston Globe
“Vital . . . Copious reporting [makes] Queen essential reading.”
—The Washington Post Book World
“Rises above the limitations of the usual star bio.”
—Chicago Tribune
“Enthralling . . . Cohodas has done her homework . . . Her biography of this peculiarly modern performer is essential reading for people interested in pop culture.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“Cohodas vividly portrays the troubled singer, often allowing Washington to speak for herself.”
—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Spinning Blues into Gold
“Cohodas’s absorbing history is more than a story of the proto-rock era . . . It’s a captivating American story of improvisation at many levels.”
—The Wall Street Journal
“Combines the intelligence and conciseness of a political reporter and the contagious enthusiasm of a dyed-in-the-wool music fan.”
—Billboard
“Nadine Cohodas’s superb biography restores the luster of Washington’s crown, detailing a life lived not always wisely but certainly with vigor.”
—The Boston Globe
“Vital . . . Copious reporting [makes] Queen essential reading.”
—The Washington Post Book World
“Rises above the limitations of the usual star bio.”
—Chicago Tribune
“Enthralling . . . Cohodas has done her homework . . . Her biography of this peculiarly modern performer is essential reading for people interested in pop culture.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“Cohodas vividly portrays the troubled singer, often allowing Washington to speak for herself.”
—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Spinning Blues into Gold
“Cohodas’s absorbing history is more than a story of the proto-rock era . . . It’s a captivating American story of improvisation at many levels.”
—The Wall Street Journal
“Combines the intelligence and conciseness of a political reporter and the contagious enthusiasm of a dyed-in-the-wool music fan.”
—Billboard
Kurzbeschreibung
From the author of the acclaimed Dinah Washington biography Queen comes this complete account of the triumphs and difficulties of the brilliant and high-tempered Nina Simone. Her distinctive voice and music occupy a singular place in the canon of American song.
Tapping into newly unearthed material—including stories of family and career—Nadine Cohodas gives us a luminous portrait of the singer who was born Eunice Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina, in 1933, one of eight children in a proud black family. We see her as a prodigiously talented child who is trained in classical piano through the charitable auspices of a local white woman. We witness her devastating disappointment when she is rejected by the Curtis Institute of Music—a dream deferred that would forever shape her self-image as well as her music. Yet by 1959—now calling herself Nina Simone—she had sung New York City’s venerable Town Hall and was on her way.
As we watch Simone’s exciting rise to stardom, Cohodas expertly weaves in the central factors of her life and career: her unique and provocative relationship with her audiences (she would “shush” them angrily; as a classically trained musician, she didn’t believe in cabaret chat); her involvement in and contributions to the civil rights movement; her two marriages, including one of brief family contentment with police detective Andy Stroud, with whom she had her daughter, Lisa; the alienation from the United States that drove her to live abroad. Alongside these threads runs a darker one: Nina’s increasing and sometimes baffling outbursts of rage and pain and her lifelong struggle to overcome a deep sense of personal injustice, which persisted even as she won international renown.
Princess Noire is a fascinating story, well told and thoroughly documented with intimate photos—a treatment that captures the passions of Nina’s life.
Tapping into newly unearthed material—including stories of family and career—Nadine Cohodas gives us a luminous portrait of the singer who was born Eunice Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina, in 1933, one of eight children in a proud black family. We see her as a prodigiously talented child who is trained in classical piano through the charitable auspices of a local white woman. We witness her devastating disappointment when she is rejected by the Curtis Institute of Music—a dream deferred that would forever shape her self-image as well as her music. Yet by 1959—now calling herself Nina Simone—she had sung New York City’s venerable Town Hall and was on her way.
As we watch Simone’s exciting rise to stardom, Cohodas expertly weaves in the central factors of her life and career: her unique and provocative relationship with her audiences (she would “shush” them angrily; as a classically trained musician, she didn’t believe in cabaret chat); her involvement in and contributions to the civil rights movement; her two marriages, including one of brief family contentment with police detective Andy Stroud, with whom she had her daughter, Lisa; the alienation from the United States that drove her to live abroad. Alongside these threads runs a darker one: Nina’s increasing and sometimes baffling outbursts of rage and pain and her lifelong struggle to overcome a deep sense of personal injustice, which persisted even as she won international renown.
Princess Noire is a fascinating story, well told and thoroughly documented with intimate photos—a treatment that captures the passions of Nina’s life.
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A TRUE ARTIST UNDER APPRECIATED
1. März 2010
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Nina Simone has often been an enigmatic figure. A tremendously talented singer/musician and a recognized figure in the Civil Rights Movement, she often showed a troubling personality. Nadine Cohodas has done a wonderful job giving us a biography of this prominent lady. Born Eunice Waymon in North Carolina, when she was very young she started showing great musical talent. Usually she is classified as a jazz singer but Simone hated classifications. Her failure to be selected in to a prestigious musical school for being black set a feeling that would follower in her live. Now singing as Nina Simone in New York she became a huge performer and would enter into the world of the black intelligentsia. Soon her passion was the Civil rights Movement. But this book shouts out at the problems she had in life. Often she was perceived as having bad behavior with her audiences, and even friends. Turns out she was suffering from bipolar disorders and these were hidden from almost everyone until after her death. Cohodas does a good job writing about her life and giving us background on her mental issues.
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A Worthwile Biography, But Not The Best
6. April 2010
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Nadine Cohodas' biography of Nina Simone is well researched, yet I find that the author paints an untrue picture of events that supposedly took place during some of Nina Simone's concert performances. Much is made of her erratic behaviour on stage, in one instance in a Billie Holiday Tribute that Simone took part in at the Hollywood Bowl. I have an audio tape of her complete performance. It was one of Nina's very greatest performances, yet the reader is led to belive that her appearance was a disaster. Cohoda's brief review of Simone's 1976 Montreux Jazz Festival appearance (which exists on DVD) makes one wonder if the author actually watched the entire performance. Too little attention is made of what made Nina Simone such an important and original artist. Her prolific recording activity and filmed performances should have been given more attention. I found another biography, "Nina Simone: Break Down and Let It All Out" by Sylvia Hampton, David Nathan, and Lisa Simone Kelly to be a more intersting read. This book does contain some fascinating photographs, though.
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worth reading
6. März 2010
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A middlingly written account of the life of the great Nina Simone, not an unkind book, but not, for all its details about Nina's personal descent, an exceptionally engaged portrait. Cohodas fails to establish a tone with her writing, so that what might have been a warm sparkling telling instead trundles along, an account of moods and events. Prevented, of course, is a genuine reckoning with the interior legacy of one of music's modern masters. It's a disappointment ameliorated by spending time with Nina, pure and simple. But I would add that I saw Simone live probably fifty times in various performance settings, and though that's fifty times less what I'd have been happy to have seen and heard this woman and her ineffacable art, I yet know her better and deeper by that than this book gives me. Still, it's good once again to trace in the mind and memory Nina Simone, a gift of the gods to us that will never die.
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