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100 1  Tick, Judith,|eauthor. 
245 10 Becoming Ella Fitzgerald :|bthe jazz singer who 
       transformed American song /|cJudith Tick. 
246 30 Jazz singer who transformed American song 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York, NY :|bW.W. Norton and Company,|c[2024] 
264  4 |c©2024 
300    xxii, 560 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
336    still image|bsti|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-539), 
       discography (page 539), and index. 
505 0  Young Ella (1917-1932) -- Amateur Nights (1933-1935) -- 
       Into Chick Webb's Orbit (1935) -- Swing-Song Singer (1935-
       1936) -- The Second Feature (1936-1937) -- "Truckin' On 
       Down The Avenue" (1938) -- Chick And Ella (1939) -- 
       Orchestra Leader (1940-1942) -- The Home Front (1941-1945)
       -- "Going Dizzy" (1945-1947) -- Ella's Moon (1947-1949) --
       "The Singer And The Label Are In It Together" (1948-1953) 
       -- Early Years With Jazz At The Philharmonic (1949-1952) -
       - Europe With Jazz At The Philharmonic (1952-1953) -- 
       Upwardly Mobile (1954-1955) -- "We Got Ella!" (1954-1956) 
       -- The Cole Porter Experiment (1956-1957) -- Sing Me A 
       Standard (1956-1957) -- Flouting Categories (1957-1958) --
       Midcentury Modern Triumphs (1959) -- "It's Quite A Problem
       Trying To Please Everyone" (1960-1964) -- Generation Gaps 
       (1963-1965) -- A Jazz Oasis In A Changing Scene (1966-
       1967) -- Reinventing Herself (1968-1969) -- Keeping On 
       (1970-1972) -- "You Can Always Learn" (1973-1978) -- "Push
       Me, Push Me" (1979-1985) -- "Don't Ever Wish For The 
       Phrase To End" (1986-1996). 
520    "A landmark biography that reclaims Ella Fitzgerald as a 
       major American artist and modernist innovator. 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 improviser 
       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."--|cBook jacket. 
600 10 Fitzgerald, Ella. 
600 17 Fitzgerald, Ella.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00108978 
650  0 Women jazz singers|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Jazz singers|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 African American jazz musicians|zUnited States|vBiography.
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650  7 Jazz singers.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00982214 
650  7 Women jazz singers.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01178070 
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655  7 Biographies.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919896 
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