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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Named Person: | Ma Rainey; Bessie Smith; Billie Holiday; Billie Holiday; Ma Rainey; Bessie Smith |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Angela Y Davis |
ISBN: | 9780307574442 030757444X 1299172393 9781299172395 |
OCLC Number: | 774591930 |
Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations |
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. |
Responsibility: | Angela Y. Davis. |
Abstract:
Examines how Black female blues singers expressed a working class, feminist perspective.
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- Holiday, Billie, -- 1915-1959.
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- Feminism and music -- United States.
- Women blues musicians -- United States.
- African American women.
- MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Voice.
- MUSIC -- Lyrics.
- MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Vocal.
- Blues (Music)
- Feminism and music.
- Women blues musicians.
- United States.
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