Big Star Fallin' Mama: Five Women in Black Music by Hettie Jones (1934- ) - 1974

150 pages with fugues, illustrations, photographs, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4' x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with blue gilt lettering to spine and names blind stamped to cover in original pictorial jacket. Second edition. Portraits of five black women and the kind of music they sang during a period of social change. Includes Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Mahalia Jackson, Billie Holiday, and Aretha Franklin. Condition: Jacket corners, edges, and spine extremities chipped, some closed edge tears, spine head creased with 1/2" chip else very good in a good to very good jacket.