Bibliograph

To anyone who ever asks, the life, music, and mystery of Connie Converse, Howard Fishman

Type

Label

To anyone who ever asks, the life, music, and mystery of Connie Converse, Howard Fishman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

platesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

To anyone who ever asks

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1340646030

Responsibility statement

Howard Fishman

Sub title

the life, music, and mystery of Connie Converse

Summary

"From a frequent music and culture contributor to The New Yorker, the mysterious, true story of the life of Connie Converse-a mid-century New York City singer/songwriter whose haunting music never found recognition-and the tale of one man's quest to uncover the truth"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Prelude a star has burnt my eye -- Past all dreaming -- ‘One by one’ -- A ghost -- Phil -- Pen pals -- Genres -- The filing cabinet -- We have never seen her like -- Part I: the end of my New England spine -- Converses -- People say -- Eatons, and Evelyn and Ernest -- Sis -- The life under -- Mount Holyoke -- Fantastic city -- A death in the woods -- The taking and the keeping -- She emerges -- Part II: ‘Connie’s guitar songs’ -- Dizzy from the spell -- Musicks -- A family visit -- Free to be free -- Bloom by night -- Part III: Connie’s piano songs -- A ghost, again -- Nothing else would do -- A resurrection project -- Harlem -- Cassandra -- ‘Connie converse signs -- Part IV: the twentieth twentieth -- The nearest star -- Markets of the mind -- Reasons -- The hard tug of the Earth -- The world and time and space -- Out and out -- The disappearance -- Coda walking in the crystal air -- Past recall -- Afterword -- Postscript: The fall of a leaf

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