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.
Our Ancestors Were Messy · CHRISTABEL NSIAH-BUADI, NATALIE TULLOCH, Nichole Hill
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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