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Sax appeal : Ivy Benson and her all-girls band
- Title
- Sax appeal : Ivy Benson and her all-girls band / Janet Tennant.
- Author
- Tennant, Janet
- Publication
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2021]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JME 21-72 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Music |
Details
- Description
- xv, 165 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
- Summary
- "The story of how Ivy Benson rose from a childhood of poverty to become the famous leader of a professional all-female jazz band that remained active for over forty years"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-160) and index.
- Contents
- The big bands -- Changing times: the 1930s -- Ivy -- Early war -- The Entertainments National Service Association -- Battle of the saxes -- The wartime "girls" -- Overpaid, oversexed and over here -- Living through history -- The shock of Berlin: the first postwar tour -- The postwar band -- On the road -- Ivy the woman -- Pop go the big bands -- Silver lady -- Memories -- Legacy.
- Call Number
- JME 21-72
- ISBN
- 9781538133279
- 153813327X
- 9781538133286 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2020011930
- OCLC
- 1127221933
- Author
- Tennant, Janet, author.
- Title
- Sax appeal : Ivy Benson and her all-girls band / Janet Tennant.
- Publisher
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-160) and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Tennant, Janet, Sax appeal Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2020. 9781538133286 (DLC) 2020011931
- Research Call Number
- JME 21-72