Elisabeth Welch

Soft Lights and Sweet Music

By:

Stephen Bourne

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Paperback / softback

Series:

The Scarecrow filmmakers series

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In Elisabeth Welch: Soft Lights and Sweet Music, author Stephen Bourne celebrates the stage, screen, and radio career of this sophisticated African American actress and singer, who always defied categorization. Spanning almost a century of popular music, she did not fit the definition of jazz, torch, pop or ballad singer but defined her art quite simply as telling a story in song. Whatever she sang, she demonstrated that she had no peer in the art of interpreting songs by the likes of Cole Porter, Noel Coward, Irving Berlin, and Jerome Kern. Her story is a fascinating one that brings readers insight about the life and times of this musical legend.

Author Biography:

Stephen Bourne, one of Britain's leading authorities on Black history, is a regular contributor to Black Filmmaker magazine and has been interviewed in several documentaries, including Black Divas (1996) and Paul Robeson: Here I Stand (1999). He is the author of Black in the British Frame: The Black Experience in British Film and Television (2001).

Release date NZ

May 12th, 2005

Author

Stephen Bourne

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributor

Foreword by Ned Sherrin

Pages

200

Series

The Scarecrow filmmakers series

Dimensions

164x227x13

ISBN-13

9780810854130

Product ID

2037799

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