TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davis,Angela Y.
TI  - Blues legacies and Black feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday 
SN  - 9780307574442
AV  - ML3521 .D355 1999eb
U1  - 782.421643/082 23
PY  - 1999///
CY  - New York
PB  - Vintage
KW  - Rainey, Ma,
KW  - Smith, Bessie,
KW  - Holiday, Billie,
KW  - Blues (Music)
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Feminism and music
KW  - United States
KW  - Women blues musicians
KW  - African American women
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - fast
N1  - 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
N2  - Examines how Black female blues singers expressed a working class, feminist perspective
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uls/detail.action?docID=5337077
ER  -