Shout, Sister, Shout!: Ten Girl Singers Who Shaped a Century by Orgill, Roxane

Shout, Sister, Shout!: Ten Girl Singers Who Shaped a Century (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781416963912)

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Shout, Sister, Shout!: Ten Girl Singers Who Shaped a Century by Orgill, Roxane

Shout, Sister, Shout!: Ten Girl Singers Who Shaped a Century

$12.95
Shout, Sister, Shout!: Ten Girl Singers Who Shaped a Century by Orgill, Roxane

Shout, Sister, Shout!: Ten Girl Singers Who Shaped a Century

$12.95
Format: Paperback
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Dip into this collective biography of ten outstanding female singers of popular music in the twentieth century and meet some of the most remarkable women who've ever lived!

Through intimate personal details and numerous photographs, interviews, and tidbits of little-known information, music critic Roxane Orgill brings to life ten "girl singers" and the decades in which they did their best work. Readers of Shout, Sister, Shout! will learn about the lives, the loves, and the music of

SOPHIE TUCKER (1900s)

MA RAINEY (1910s)

BESSIE SMITH (1920s)

ETHEL MERMAN (1930s)

JUDY GARLAND (1940s)

ANITA O'DAY (1950s)

JOAN BAEZ (1960s)

BETTE MIDLER (1970s)

MADONNA (1980s)

LUCINDA WILLIAMS (1990s)

Writing in a friendly, readable style, Roxane Orgill has created a book of great distinction that will fascinate and inspire readers of all ages.

Author: Roxane Orgill
ISBN-10: 141696391X
ISBN-13: 9781416963912
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Language: English
Published: 09/06/2007
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.25w x 0.35d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.8
Point Value: 7
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 59710 / Shout, Sister, Shout! Ten Girl Singers Who Shaped a Century
By Roxane Orgill
By Roxane Orgill
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Roxane Orgill played the violin as a child and concentrated on music history and theory in college and graduate school. She has been a music critic for more than twenty years, writing for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Bergen County (New Jersey) Record, the Milwaukee Journal, and Billboard. She is also the author of the picture book If I Only Had a Horn: Young Louis Armstrong. Ms. Orgill lives with her husband and young daughter in Hoboken, New Jersey.

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