Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton"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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Mary Lou Williams ' s lively memoir of that era noted " the miles of dirt and turtle -
back roads " over which a band had to travel in those days . On her first trip to
Oklahoma , “ these excuses for highways were studded with sharp stones . . .
every ...
Mary Lou Williams ' s lively memoir of that era noted " the miles of dirt and turtle -
back roads " over which a band had to travel in those days . On her first trip to
Oklahoma , “ these excuses for highways were studded with sharp stones . . .
every ...
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The Wills band could be heard by listeners as far away as Oakland , California ,
and though it was broadcast at intervals throughout the day , the noontime live
broadcast grew to be one of the most popular radio shows in the Midwest .
Farmers ...
The Wills band could be heard by listeners as far away as Oakland , California ,
and though it was broadcast at intervals throughout the day , the noontime live
broadcast grew to be one of the most popular radio shows in the Midwest .
Farmers ...
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Its band had the best live music around — “ George Mayer , the music that gets in
your hay - er , ” the kids called it . The band ' s first high school recruit was a
trumpet player named Bill Pierson , seventeen years old and in the last months of
his ...
Its band had the best live music around — “ George Mayer , the music that gets in
your hay - er , ” the kids called it . The band ' s first high school recruit was a
trumpet player named Bill Pierson , seventeen years old and in the last months of
his ...
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Reseña de usuario - bookwormteri - LibraryThingWhile I found this book super interesting, I definitely felt the lack of Billy's perspective in this story. An incomplete read without knowing what he was thinking and feeling and his motivation ... Leer reseña completa
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Reseña de usuario - ursula - LibraryThingThis was a very interesting book about Billy Tipton, a musician in the jazz/swing era who was born a woman but passed as a man almost his entire adult life. It's both fascinating and frustrating ... Leer reseña completa
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