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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billi
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- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780679771265
- Book Title
- Blues Legacies and Black Feminism : Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- Music, Social Science
- Topic
- Feminism & Feminist Theory, Genres & Styles / Blues, Women's Studies, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
- Item Width
- 5.2 in
- Item Weight
- 15.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 464 Pages
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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.
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679771263
ISBN-13
9780679771265
eBay Product ID (ePID)
770343
Product Key Features
Book Title
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism : Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Feminism & Feminist Theory, Genres & Styles / Blues, Women's Studies, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year
1999
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Music, Social Science
Number of Pages
464 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Item Weight
15.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Ml3521
Table of Content
I. I Used to Be Your Sweet Mama: Ideology, Sexuality and Domesticity II. Blame It On the Blues: Bessie Smith, "Ma" Rainey and the Politics of Blues Protest III. Mama's Got The Blues: Rivals, Girlfriends and Advisors IV. Here Come My Train: Traveling Themes in Ma Rainey's Blues V. Preaching the Blues: Spirituality and Self-Consciousness VI. Up In Harlem Every Saturday Night: Blues and the Black Aesthetic VII. When A Woman Loves A Man: Social Implications of Billie Holiday's Love Songs VIII. Strange Fruit: Music and Social Consciousness Lyrics to Songs Recorded by Gertrude "Ma" Rainey Lyrics to Songs Recorded by Bessie Smith Notes Works Consulted Index Permissions Acknowledgments
Copyright Date
1999
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