1 edition of What happened, Miss Simone? found in the catalog.
What happened, Miss Simone?
Alan Light
Published
2016
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Written in English
Inspired by the Netflix documentary What happened, Miss Simone?, an intimate and vivid look at the legendary life of Nina Simone, the classically trained pianist who evolved into a chart-topping chanteuse and committed civil rights activist.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-296), discography (pages 261-262), filmography (page 296), and index.
| Other titles | What happened, Miss Simone? (Motion picture) |
| Statement | Alan Light |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | ML420.S5635 L54 2016 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | 309 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates |
| Number of Pages | 309 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL27200137M |
| ISBN 10 | 1101904879 |
| ISBN 10 | 9781101904879 |
| LC Control Number | 2015041145 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 927141345 |
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I preferred the documentary to the book. While the book is good, one cannot possibly capture the magnetic presence of Miss Simone. Directed by Liz Garbus. With Nina Simone, Lisa Simone Kelly, Roger Nupie, Al Schackman. A documentary about the life and legend Nina Simone, an American singer, pianist, and civil rights activist labeled the "High Priestess of Soul."/10(K).
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Inspired by the Academy Award-nominated Netflix documentary What Happened, Miss Simone?, an intimate and vivid look at the legendary life of Nina Simone, the classically trained pianist who evolved into a chart-topping chanteuse and committed civil rights activist.
Inspired by the critically acclaimed documentary and drawing on glimpses into previously unseen diaries, rare interviews and childhood journals, and with the aid of her daughter, What Happened, Miss Simone. tells the story of the classically trained pianist who became a soul legend, a committed civil rights activist and one of the most influential, provocative and least understood artists of our time.
Inspired by the Academy Award-nominated Netflix documentary What Happened, Miss Simone?, an intimate and vivid look at the legendary life of Nina Simone, the classically trained pianist who evolved into a chart-topping chanteuse and committed civil rights activist.
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is an intimate and vivid portrait of the twentieth-century icon Nina Simone/5(40). By Manohla Dargis. J Partway through “What Happened, Miss Simone?,” an often electric, bracingly urgent documentary on the singer-musician Nina Simone, we. Inspired by the Academy Award-nominated Netflix documentary What Happened, Miss Simone., an intimate and vivid look at the legendary life of Nina Simone, the.
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InSimone posthumously received a nomination for Best Music Film for the Netflix documentary What Happened, Miss Simone? and in she received a nomination for Best Rap Song as a songwriter for Jay Z's "The Story of O.J." from his album which contained a sample of "Four Women" by Simone.What Happened, Miss Simone?
captures how unique and real she was on every page." -Alicia Keys "A spellbinding portrait of a musical genius, a woman both ahead of her time and of it.
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