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Donald Milton Clarke | |
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| Born | 1940 (age 85–86) Kenosha, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Alma mater | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Notable works | The Rise and Fall of Popular Music (1995) |
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Donald Milton Clarke (born 1940) is an American writer on music.[1]
Clarke was born in 1940 and raised inKenosha, Wisconsin. From 1959 through 1969, he worked at a car factory in KenoshaAmerican Motors Corporation. In 1973, he graduated from theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison with a Bachelor of Science in education with honors. He lived in England from 1973 to 1998, during which time, from 1974 to 1979, he worked forMarshall Cavendish Publications.
From 1998, Clarke lived inAustin, Texas, moving in 2003 toWest Des Moines, Iowa, where he worked for a time on the music e-zinesBluesWax andFolkWax. He then moved toAllentown, Pennsylvania in 2009 and toColorado Springs in 2014.
Clarke was the author/editor of thePenguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (1989, 1998), which is now available free on website. His other books includeWishing on the Moon: The Life and Times of Billie Holiday (1994),The Rise and Fall of Popular Music (1995),[2] andAll or Nothing at All: A Life of Frank Sinatra (1997). TheBillie Holiday biography was reprinted byDa Capo Press in 2000 under the titleBillie Holiday: Wishing on the Moon.
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{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)LCCN 94-8881;ISBN 0-6708-3771-7;ISBN 0-3068-1136-7,978-0-3068-1136-4;OCLC 30036926 (all editions).Articles
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