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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday Paperback - 1999
by Angela Y. Davis
The author of "Women, Race and Class" suggests that "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday represent a black working-class, feminist ideology and historical consciousness. Davis' illuminating analysis of the songs performed by these artists provides readers with a compelling and transformative understanding of their musical and social contributions and of their relation to both the African-American community and American culture. of photos.
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Like most forms of popular music, African-American blues lyrics talk about love.
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- Title Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
- Author Angela Y. Davis
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Pages 464
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date January 26, 1999
- ISBN 9780679771265 / 0679771263
- Weight 0.92 lbs (0.42 kg)
- Dimensions 7.97 x 5.16 x 0.94 in (20.24 x 13.11 x 2.39 cm)
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- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Blues (Music) - History and criticism, Holiday, Billie
- Dewey Decimal Code 782.421
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United States of America: Vintage Books, 1998. Later printing. New. 427pp. Octavo [20.5 cm]. Illustrated wraps. From the publisher: "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…
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