Born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in North Carolina at the tail-end of the Great Depression, Nina Simone was a precocious child with dreams of becoming the world’s first black classical soloist. After a rejection from an elite New York conservatoire—a rejection she always believed stemmed from the color of her skin—she began performing jazz, blues, and classical songs in a bar to fund her music studies. In 1958 her rendition of the Gershwin standard “I Loves You Porgy” became a Top 40 hit, and her subsequent debut album Little Girl Blue launched what would become an extensive singing and songwriting career. Drawing on a wealth of original interviews with Simone’s closest associates, this extraordinary biography follows her sparkling career as well as her passionate belief in racial equality that eventually led her to undergo self-imposed exile from America in 1970. Featuring rare photographs and a review of Simone’s more than 40 albums and numerous hits, this is an extensive look at the complex and extremely talented diva.

Nina Simone: The Biography

Brun-Lambert, David

Humor & Entertainment

Aurum Press

"The greatest female artist of the 20th century” – Elton John This first-ever biography of Nina Simone caused quite a stir among reviewers. “A chastening read”, said the Sunday Times; “Simone’s story is as harrowing as it is remarkable”, said the Yorkshire Post. No-one was quite prepared for the life story of the singer of such enduringly uplifting classics as “My Baby Just Cares for Me” turning out to be such a chilling litany of mental disorder, vile temper, terrible abuse at the hands of bad men, and a self-destructively hostile attitude all too often to the acolytes who came to see her perform. Brun-Lambert shows how Simone saw herself as a lifelong victim of racism, right from being turned down by the prestigious music school that would have enabled her to become a classical musician. Undiagnosed bipolar disorder, he argues, added to her torment. But it was her unforgettable voice, and, at best, her utterly magnetic performances, that kept people coming to a sold-out Ronnie Scott’s every time she was in residency, and the way she sang her hardest songs like “Mississippi Goddam”with such fire and fury that they became anthems of political change, and means so many people can only be curious about the real life of the mecurial woman behind the piano. David Brun-Lambert is a highly regarded French writer and broadcaster.

Nina Simone, une vie

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Flammarion

1987, Manchester : dans un entrepôt reconverti en club la musique s'apprête à vivre sa dernière grande révolution. Vingt-cinq ans plus tard, la house music est un phénomène mondial. Ses artistes sont devenus des idoles ou bien les hérauts de nouvelles avant-gardes artistiques, quand l'esthétique techno est omniprésente dans notre paysage culturel. Depuis les ghettos noirs-américains de Détroit et Chicago jusqu'à l'explosion planétaire à l'orée des années 2000, du triomphe de la techno dans les charts internationaux à l'avènement du peer-to-peer, Laurent Garnier raconte, à travers son expérience et ses souvenirs, l'épopée électro : ses moments clés, ses acteurs, événements et lieux phares, ses histoires sécrétés, ses excès et ses enjeux. Acteur essentiel et témoin privilégié de l'aventure électronique, il dévoile de l'intérieur les coulisses de l'odyssée techno.

Électrochoc: L'intégrale, 1987-2013 (French Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Garnier, Laurent

Literary

Pop City New York (Hors collection) (French Edition)

LE CHENE

•Walk in the New York footsteps of iconic artists Warhol, Robert de Niro, Jack Kerouac and Billie Holiday in this unique guide to New York City Original, sober, precise, elegant, and captivating: Pop City is different from all other existing city guides. It is pop in its essence, literary in its approach - with detailed information offered up, and attractive design and illustrations. Pop City is aimed at all audiences, from 7 to 77 years old: pop culture fans and curious travellers alike, city lovers and history buffs. It is specifically designed as both an invitation to travel without leaving your seat or as the perfect accompaniment for a weekend or extended stay. This is a seductive city guide that's practical and pertinent in a pocket format: discover a city in the shoes of a Pop idol without ever looking like a tourist!

Pop City New York (Pop City Guide)

Travel

Pollet, Aurelie

Tanguy, David

Specialty Travel

Hachette Livre Editions Du Chene

Captivating photographs from the present and the past take readers on a tour through New York City’s most influential cultural spaces―reminding us of what made them legendary, and revealing what has replaced them. If you lived in New York City in the 1950s, '60s, '70s, or '80s, you were likely enchanted by a particular, legendary place. Latenight spots like the Copacabana, Studio 54, The Mudd Club, or The Roxy; music venues such as CBGBs and the Village Vanguard; cutting-edge performance spaces such as The Kitchen and St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery; social hangouts like the Gaslight Café and Keith Haring’s Pop Shop. Many of these places are gone, but none are forgotten―and all are brought thrillingly back to life in this gorgeously designed volume. Poignant, insightful texts and both archival and new photography take readers inside more than 40 historical locations to see what made them so beloved back in the day and reveal what they look like now. Each chapter includes background history of the space, as well as quotes from famous artists, musicians, and other key players of the time. Together, these words and pictures comprise a bittersweet elegy for a city’s iconic spaces and show the continued relevance of New York as a hotbed for the creation of popular culture.

Unforgotten New York: Legendary Spaces of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde

Arts & Photography

Short, John

Photography & Video

Prestel

Elektroschock

Music

Hannibal Verlag GmbH

<div> <div> From the African American ghettos to its worldwide explosion in the year 2000, Laurent Garnier uses his own experiences and memories to tell us the story of the evolution of techno music: its key moments, its protagonists, and its secret history. Desde los guetos afroamericanos hasta la explosión planetaria en el año 2000, Laurent Garnier nos narra, a través de su experiencia y sus recuerdos, la historia de la evolución del género musical del techno&rdquo;: sus momentos claves, sus protagonistas, y su historia secreta.</div> </div>

Electroshock (Memorias) (Spanish Edition)

Global Rhythm Press

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