Blues legacies and Black feminism : Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday / Angela Y. Davis.
Material type: TextPublisher number: EB00170840 | Recorded BooksPublication details: New York : Vintage, 1999.Edition: 1st Vintage books edDescription: 1 online resource : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780307574442
- 030757444X
- 1299172393
- 9781299172395
- 782.421643/082 23
- ML3521 .D355 1999eb
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Includes bibliographical references.
I used to be your sweet mama : ideology, sexuality, and domesticity -- Mama's got the blues : rivals, girlfriends, and advisors -- Here come my train : traveling themes and women's blues -- Blame it on the blues : Bessie Smith, Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, and the politics of blues protest -- Preaching the blues : spirituality and self-consciousness -- Up in Harlem every Saturday night : blues and the Black aesthetic -- When a woman loves a man : social implications of Billie Holiday's love songs -- "Strange fruit" : music and social consciousness -- Lyrics to songs recorded by Gertrude "Ma" Rainey -- Lyrics to songs recorded by Bessie Smith.
Examines how Black female blues singers expressed a working class, feminist perspective.