Libba the magnificent musical life of Elizabeth Cotten
Elizabeth Cotten was only a little girl when she picked up a guitar for the first time. It wasn't hers (it was her big brother's), and it wasn't strung right for her (she was left-handed). But she flipped that guitar upside down and backwards and taught herself how to play it anyway. By age eleven,...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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San Francisco, California :
Chronicle Books,
[2018]
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| Summary: | Elizabeth Cotten was only a little girl when she picked up a guitar for the first time. It wasn't hers (it was her big brother's), and it wasn't strung right for her (she was left-handed). But she flipped that guitar upside down and backwards and taught herself how to play it anyway. By age eleven, she'd written "Freight Train," one of the most famous folk songs of the twentieth century. And by the end of her life, people everywhere from the sunny beaches of California to the rolling hills of England knew her music. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781452148571 1452148570 |
| Author Notes: | Tatyana Fazlalizadeh is based in Brooklyn, New York, and is an artist and activist. This is her first picture book. |
