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3.0 out of 5 stars
A Useful Biography, But Little Else,
This review is from: Marian Anderson: An Annotated Bibliography and Discography (Hardcover)
Marian Anderson was certainly one of the finest singers America produced in the 20th Century, a fact made abundantely clear by this book. If you want a good biography, this one will do. Do not buy this book if you want a discography of her, however. What is provided is utterly wretched. The title alludes to a real discography being part of the book, but this is not the case. What is here is a list of LP relases. There is no systematic and researched listing of the records she made, when she made them or where or with whom. Neither is there a listing of her many broadcast appearances or the extant recordings of same. All of this data so dear and necessary to a genuine record collector is absent here. The biographical section is not at all bad, and shows the work of a careful researcher, but the real Marian Anderson -- like the real Callas -- is found on her records, and those are given the short shrift in this book.
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Marian Anderson: An Annotated Bibliography and Discography by Janet L. Sims-Wood (Hardcover - February 13, 1981)
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