Blues Legacies and Black Feminism : : Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday
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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.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Vintage, 1999, c1998.
Year Published: 1998
Description: xx, 427 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0679771263
9780679771265
SUBJECTS
Rainey, Ma, -- 1886-1939.
Smith, Bessie, -- 1894-1937.
Holiday, Billie, -- 1915-1959.
Blues (Music) -- History and criticism.
Feminism and music.
Women blues musicians.
African American women.