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Author : Derrick Stewart-Baxter
Release : 1970
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Ma Rainey and the Classic Blues Singers by : Derrick Stewart-Baxter
Download or read book Ma Rainey and the Classic Blues Singers written by Derrick Stewart-Baxter. This book was released on 1970. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sandra R. Lieb
Release : 1981
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Mother of the Blues by : Sandra R. Lieb
Download or read book Mother of the Blues written by Sandra R. Lieb. This book was released on 1981. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Briefly portrays the life of the influential blues singer, Ma Rainey, discusses the development of her music, and analyzes the theme of love in her music.
Author : Sandra Robin Lieb
Release : 1975
Genre : African American singers
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Book Synopsis The Message of Ma Rainey's Blues by : Sandra Robin Lieb
Download or read book The Message of Ma Rainey's Blues written by Sandra Robin Lieb. This book was released on 1975. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Angela Y. Davis
Release : 2011-10-05
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Blues Legacies and Black Feminism by : Angela Y. Davis
Download or read book Blues Legacies and Black Feminism written by Angela Y. Davis. This book was released on 2011-10-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial black women blues singers through a feminist lens. Angela Davis provides the historical, social, and political contexts with which to reinterpret the performances and lyrics of Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday as powerful articulations of an alternative consciousness profoundly at odds with mainstream American culture. The works of Rainey, Smith, and Holiday have been largely misunderstood by critics. Overlooked, Davis shows, has been the way their candor and bravado laid the groundwork for an aesthetic that allowed for the celebration of social, moral, and sexual values outside the constraints imposed by middle-class respectability. Through meticulous transcriptions of all the extant lyrics of Rainey and Smith−published here in their entirety for the first time−Davis demonstrates how the roots of the blues extend beyond a musical tradition to serve as a conciousness-raising vehicle for American social memory. A stunning, indispensable contribution to American history, as boldly insightful as the women Davis praises, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism is a triumph.
Author : Paige A. McGinley
Release : 2014-09-10
Genre : Music
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Book Synopsis Staging the Blues by : Paige A. McGinley
Download or read book Staging the Blues written by Paige A. McGinley. This book was released on 2014-09-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Singing was just one element of blues performance in the early twentieth century. Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and other classic blues singers also tapped, joked, and flaunted extravagant costumes on tent show and black vaudeville stages. The press even described these women as "actresses" long before they achieved worldwide fame for their musical recordings. In Staging the Blues, Paige A. McGinley shows that even though folklorists, record producers, and festival promoters set the theatricality of early blues aside in favor of notions of authenticity, it remained creatively vibrant throughout the twentieth century. Highlighting performances by Rainey, Smith, Lead Belly, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Sonny Terry, and Brownie McGhee in small Mississippi towns, Harlem theaters, and the industrial British North, this pioneering study foregrounds virtuoso blues artists who used the conventions of the theater, including dance, comedy, and costume, to stage black mobility, to challenge narratives of racial authenticity, and to fight for racial and economic justice.
