Singer/Songwriter (8-Apr-1929 — 9-Oct-1978)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Alan Clayson. Jacques Brel. Music Sales Corporation. 2001. 200pp.

Carole A. Holdsworth. Modern Minstrelsy: Miguel Hernández and Jacques Brel. P. Lang. 1979. 143pp.

Sara Poole. Brel and Chanson: A Critical Appreciation. University Press of America. 2004. 136pp.

Chris Tinker. Georges Brassens and Jacques Brel: Personal and Social Narratives in Post-war Chanson. Liverpool University Press. 2005. 224pp.

ONLINE PRESENCE

1. Official Website: http://www.jacquesbrel.be/

AUTHORITIES

Below are references indicating presence of this name in another database or other reference material. Most of the sources listed are encyclopedic in nature but might be limited to a specific field, such as musicians or film directors. A lack of listings here does not indicate unimportance -- we are nowhere near finished with this portion of the project -- though if many are shown it does indicate a wide recognition of this individual.

1. NNDB [link]

2. Internet Movie Database [link]

3. Internet Broadway Database [link]

4. Wikipedia [link]

5. Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians (p.93)

6. Current Biography, 1971 Yearbook (pp.58-60)

7. Celebrity Register 3rd Issue (p.61)

8. Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 8th Edition (p.128)

9. Legends in Their Own Time (p.32)

10. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.349)

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