For 50 years the jazz world - and three wives - believed that Billy Tipton was a man, but the musician was later revealed as a cross-dresser. This biography covers Tipton's early years in Oklahoma, the nights playing with Louis Armstrong's partner, and his/her extraordinary relationships.
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For 50 years the jazz world - and three wives - believed that Billy Tipton was a man, but the musician was later revealed as a cross-dresser. This biography covers Tipton's early years in Oklahoma, the nights playing with Louis Armstrong's partner, and his/her extraordinary relationships.
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Add this copy of Suits Me: Double Life of Billy Tipton to cart. $16.14, fair condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published by VIRAGO PRESS LTD.
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Used: Acceptable. Size: 8.7 x 5.5 x 1.3 inches; Hardback with D/J in good condition. 1998 1st edition Virago. Billy Tipton was a jazz performer who played in clubs throughout the Midwest of the US for nearly 50 years. Tipton never made the big time as a musician and ended up working as a booking agent in Spokane, Washington. Only with Tipton's death in 1989 was it revealed that the five-times-married father of three boys was biologically female. Diane Wood Middlebrook's biography describes the transformation of Dorothy Tipton, a white Oklahoman who was not allowed to play jazz because she was a girl, into Billy Tipton, a male pianist and bandleader. The author traces the life of this itinerant jazz musician over several decades and through changing constructions of gender. Middlebrook, whose biography of Anne Sexton was noted for its controversial use of tape recordings and notes made during the poet's psychiatric treatment, was approached by Kitty Tipton Oakes, one of Billy's former wives, to write this biography. She interviewed his/her friends, spouses, family members, and colleagues and found them to have different, yet universally sympathetic, readings of Tipton's gender. In addition to examining what gender is, Suits Me also asks to whom it belongs: the individual or the people who interact with the individual. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 'This well researched biography avoids sensationalism in its perceptive portrayal of an artist...'-used books, secondhand books, out of print books, hard to find books, for sale, second-hand books, college books, student books, nonfiction, first edition, signed copies, non-fiction books delivered world wide. ISBN 1-85381-658-2 1853816582.
Add this copy of Suits Me. the Double Life of Billy Tipton to cart. $20.22, good condition, Sold by Besleys Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Diss, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1998 by Virago Press.
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Good in Good. jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. D/J has small tear to bottom of spine otherwise good. The book is good tight and clean. Suits Me is the biography of the notorious jazz musician Billy Tipton, who grew up as Dorothy Tipton but lived as a man from the time he was nineteen until he died at the age of 74. Billy Tipton's death made headlines all over the world not only because he was a celebrated musician but because of the scale of his deception. he had been married to five women and had reared several adopted children and the scarcity of ready explanations endowed the skimpy available facts with the aura of myth. You will receive the book seen in the image.
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Add this copy of Suits Me the Double Life of Billy Tipton to cart. $28.53, very good condition, Sold by Baggins Book Bazaar rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Rochester, KENT, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1998 by Virago Press.
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Add this copy of Suits Me: Double Life of Billy Tipton to cart. $48.80, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by VIRAGO PRESS LTD.
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