Blues legacies and Black feminism : Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday / Angela...
Blues legacies and Black feminism : Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday / Angela...
Blues legacies and Black feminism : Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday / Angela Y. Davis.
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Publisher
New York : Pantheon Books, c1998.
Call Numbers
N782.421643/4
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Language
English
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Physical content
xx, 427 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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 Blu...
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Publisher
New York : Pantheon Books, c1998.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c1998.
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Summary
Jazz, it is widely accepted, is the signal original American contribution to world culture. Angela Davis shows us how the roots of that form in the blues must be viewed not only as a musical tradition but as a life-sustaining vehicle for an alternative black working-class collective memory and social consciousness profoundly at odds with mainstream...
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Blues legacies and Black feminism : Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday / Angela Y. Davis.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c1998.
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N782.421643/4
Record Identifier
74VvMm8ZkJ4b
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ISBN
0349105227
067945005X
9780349105222
DDC
782.421643082
MMS ID
991007095309702626
