Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga : : Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South
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Introduction: uncovering the life of a blues woman -- Beyond the contraband camps: Black Chattanooga from the Civil War to 1880 -- The freest town on the map: Black migration to new south Chattanooga -- The empress's playground: Bessie Smith and Black childhood in the urban South -- Life on Big Ninth Street: the emerging blues culture in Chattanooga -- An empress in vaudeville: Bessie Smith on the theater circuit.
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PUBLISHED
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2008.
Year Published: 2008
Description: xiii, 198 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780252033384 (cloth : alk. paper)
0252033388 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780252075452 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0252075455 (pbk. : alk. paper)
SUBJECTS
Smith, Bessie, -- 1894-1937.
Singers -- Biography.
Blues (Music) -- Chattanooga -- History and criticism.
African Americans -- Chattanooga -- History.
Chattanooga (Tenn.) -- History.