Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy TiptonHoughton Mifflin, 1998 - 326 páginas "Suits Me is the biography of a now notorious jazz musician named Billy Tipton, who grew up as Dorothy Tipton in Oklahoma City and Kansas City but lived as a man from the time she was nineteen until she died at age seventy-four. Billy Tipton's death in Spokane, Washington, made news all over the world, not because he was celebrated as a musician but because the scale of his deception - he had been "married" to five women and had reared several adopted children - and the scarcity of ready explanations endowed the skimpy available facts with the aura of myth." "But locked away in Billy's office closet lay files of clippings and photographs documenting the transformation of Billy from she to he, as well as a legacy of annotated comic routines, musical arrangements, and program notes. These revealed to Diane Wood Middlebrook how Billy scattered clues and riddles night after night about the drag she wore. These hints were so bold that they helped conceal Billy's secrets." "With brio and pathos, Suits Me tells the life story of this brilliant deceiver, who lived and loved in two skins, one of each sex."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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... piano , Fats Waller style , in Moten's band at just about the time Dorothy Tipton left Oklahoma City to learn classical piano at Miss Concannon's . Maybe more to the point , Kansas City was then the home base of some strong female piano ...
... piano , Fats Waller style , in Moten's band at just about the time Dorothy Tipton left Oklahoma City to learn classical piano at Miss Concannon's . Maybe more to the point , Kansas City was then the home base of some strong female piano ...
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... piano with that band out there , and I don't know anything . " She said , " You just learn . You go pick the chords offa the guitar there , and I'll play the piano and show you chord for chord what chord . " So Mama helped me . By late ...
... piano with that band out there , and I don't know anything . " She said , " You just learn . You go pick the chords offa the guitar there , and I'll play the piano and show you chord for chord what chord . " So Mama helped me . By late ...
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... piano style of Fats Waller and Earl Hines as a teenager , using the speed regulator on a gramophone to slow a record to the speed he wanted . " You could hear exactly what a player was doing in a particularly intri- cate passage and ...
... piano style of Fats Waller and Earl Hines as a teenager , using the speed regulator on a gramophone to slow a record to the speed he wanted . " You could hear exactly what a player was doing in a particularly intri- cate passage and ...
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But Who Was She? 18891928 | 23 |
Kansas City 19291932 | 33 |
19331940 | 47 |
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