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Blues legacies and Black feminism : Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday / Angela Y. Davis.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher number: EB00170840 | Recorded BooksPublication details: New York : Vintage, 1999.Edition: 1st Vintage books edDescription: 1 online resource : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780307574442
  • 030757444X
  • 1299172393
  • 9781299172395
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 782.421643/082 23
LOC classification:
  • ML3521 .D355 1999eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: Examines how Black female blues singers expressed a working class, feminist perspective.
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E-resource ULS E-Resources E-resource ML3521 .D355 1999eb Available

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.

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