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Donald Milton Clarke (born 1940) is an American writer on music.[1]
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Donald Milton Clarke | |
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| Born | 1940 Kenosha, Wisconsin |
| Occupation | Writer |
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Career
Clarke was born in 1940 and raised in Kenosha, Wisconsin. From 1959 through 1969, he worked at a car factory in Kenosh, American Motors Corporation. In 1973, Clarke graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a Bachelor of Science in Education with honors. He lived in England from 1973 to 1998, during which, from 1974 to 1979, he worked with Marshall Cavendish Publications. Beginning around 1998–1999, Clarke lived in Austin, Texas, for five years. He moved to West Des Moines, Iowa, in 2003, where he worked for a time on the music e-zines BluesWax and FolkWax. He then moved to Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 2009, and in 2014, to Colorado Springs.
Clarke was the author/editor of the Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (1989, 1998) which is now available free on his website. Clarke's other books include Wishing On The Moon: The Life and Times of Billie Holiday (1994), The Rise And Fall Of Popular Music (1995),[2] and All Or Nothing At All: A Life Of Frank Sinatra (1997). The Billie Holiday biography was reprinted by Da Capo Press in 2000 under the title Billie Holiday: Wishing On The Moon.
Selected work
Books
- Clarke, Donald (1990) [1989]. The Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (1st ed., 1989, published by Penguin Books). Viking Press – via Internet Archive (Duke University Libraries). LCCN 88-40587; ISBN 0-6708-0349-9 (hardback), ISBN 0-1405-1147-4 (paperback).
- Clarke, Donald (1995). The Rise and Fall of Popular Music (1st ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 9780312142001 – via Internet Archive (Kahle/Austin Foundation).
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) LCCN 94-36824; ISBN 0-3121-1573-3
- Clarke, Donald (1998). All or Nothing at All – A Life of Frank Sinatra. Thorndike, Maine: Thorndike Press. Bath, England: Chivers Press – via Internet Archive (Arcadia Fund). LCCN 97-51266.
- Clarke, Donald (2002) [2009, 2000, 1998, 1995, 1994]. Billie Holiday: Wishing on the Moon (First Da Capo Press ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts. ISBN 9780306811364 – via Internet Archive (Arcadia Fund). LCCN 94-8881; ISBN 0-6708-3771-7; ISBN 0-3068-1136-7, 978-0-3068-1136-4; OCLC 30036926 (all editions).
Articles
- Clarke, Donald (2012). "Holiday, Billie [Harris, Elinore; Fagan, Eleanora; Lady Day]". Grove Music Online – "The World's Premier Authority on all Aspects of Music" (published in print: November 26, 2013. Published online October 4, 2012). Oxford Music Online. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.A2228483. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0. LCCN 2002-604974 (2nd ed; 2002); OCLC 70513996 (all editions); doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.A2228483.
References
- "Clarke, Donald Milton". Who's Who in Entertainment. Vol. 1 (of 3) (3rd ed.). Providence: Marquis Who's Who. 1997. p. 117. ISSN 1044-0887; OCLC 597468613, 607836822 (online version), OCLC 19003710 (all editions).
- Thompson, Ben (February 5, 1995). "Books: The Rise and Fall of Popular Music by Donald Clarke". The Independent (book review). Retrieved 4 August 2021.
External links
- Schwartz, Steve (2000) (The rise and Fall of Popular Music)
- Schwartz, Steve (2001) All or Nothing at All: A Life of Frank Sinatra)
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