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Nora Holt: The Lives and Loves of Harlem's Legendary Blonde Bombshell
· 1 h 19 min · S1 E8
Episode Nora Holt: The Lives and Loves of Harlem's Legendary Blonde Bombshell
A musical prodigy from Kansas becomes a renowned race woman in Chicago, a tabloid sensation in Harlem, and a musical force the world over. These are the many lives and loves of one of the most famous women of the era: Nora Holt. Starring Natalie Tulloch and Christabel Nsiah-Buadi
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SOURCES
• Nora Holt: The Most Famous Woman You've Never Heard Of by Imani Perry • Nora Holt by Matthew Guerrieri • Nora Holt: New Negro Composer and Jazz Age Goddess by Cheryl A. Wall • "Strange What Cosmopolites Music Makes of Us": Classical Music, the Black press, and Nora Douglas Holt's Black Feminist Audiotopia by Lucy Caplan
Links in the notes 11
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalie-tulloch-32869022/
- https://nsiahbuadi.com/
- https://ourancestorsweremessy.supercast.com/
- https://www.instagram.com/ourancestorsweremessy/
- https://www.tiktok.com/@our.ancestors.were.messy
- https://ourancestorsweremessy.com/
- https://www.youtube.com/@OurAncestorsWereMessy
- https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2021/12/nora-holt-the-most-famous-woman-youve-never-heard-of/676764/
- https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/06/nora-holt-feature
- https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0153/chapters/10.11647/obp.0153.08
- https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-society-for-american-music/article/abs/strange-what-cosmopolites-music-makes-of-us-classical-music-the-black-press-and-nora-douglas-holts-black-feminist-audiotopia/09EB9AD2ABE661FFDCDAB6D157961718
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