{"product_id":"becoming-ella-fitzgerald","title":"Becoming Ella Fitzgerald","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElla 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBecoming Ella Fitzgerald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eclears 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRarely 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53371570815290,"sku":"9781324105220","price":38.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0868\/6449\/4906\/files\/9781324105220.jpg?v=1777343284","url":"https:\/\/titlemusicfilmbooks.com\/products\/becoming-ella-fitzgerald","provider":"TITLE ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}