Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "MA" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday more books like this

by Angela Yvonne Davis

University professor and 1960s activist Angela Davis's erudite and sweeping examination of the careers of two of the blues' best known interpreters, Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith, plus the jazz singer Billie Holiday, looks at the roots of the blues' lyrical obsessions with sexuality (this sexuality frequently being the only factor in their ...

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Bessie more books like this

by Chris Albertson

First published in 1972, this celebrated biography of jazz great Bessie Smith (1895-1937) has been revised to include material from interviews the author conducted with people who knew her. The book is an examination not only of this supremely gifted singer but also of the music world of the time.

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The American Dream, the Death of Bessie Smith, Fam and Yam: Three Plays more books like this

by Edward Albee

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Bessie Smith and the Night Riders more books like this

by Sue Stauffacher, John Holyfield (Illustrator)

Stauffacher and Holyfield tell a powerful story of facing down danger and standing up for what's right as it relates an event in which legendary blues singer Bessie Smith stood up against the Ku Klux Klan. Full color.

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Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South more books like this

by Michelle R Scott

As one of the first African American vocalists to be recorded, Bessie Smith is a prominent figure in American popular culture and African American history. Michelle R. Scott uses Smith's life as a lens to investigate broad issues in history, including industrialization, Southern rural to urban migration, black community development in the post ...

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Somebody's angel child; the story of Bessie Smith. more books like this

by Carman Moore

The life of the Negro singer who flourished in the twenties and was known as "Queen" of the blues.

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Bessie Smith more books like this

by Jackie Kay

In the OUT LINES series, a biography of blues singer Bessie Smith which examines her artistic success and personal tragedies, provides information about her lesbian affairs and unhappy marriage and considers how these factors influenced her music.

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Bessie Smith more books like this

by Elaine Feinstein

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Words and Songs of Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, and Nina Simone: Sound Motion, Blues Spirit, and African Memory more books like this

by Melanie E Bratcher

This book explores the relationship between three African American women's dance-art-music sensibilities within the context of a Pan African aesthetic. Its purpose is three-fold: to show commonalities between Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday and Nina Simone's lives and original compositions; to codify, examine and evaluate their selected song ...

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Bessie Smith Companion more books like this

by Edward Brooks, Jr., Stephenson Brooks

Bessie Smith released 159 recordings, nearly all of which are considered classics. This book sets out to describe the details of Bessie's technique and to assess its appropriateness to the material with which she was presented. It is one of the first works devoted to the serious investigation of the Blues as a genre.

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The Sandbox & the Death of Bessie Smith more books like this

by Edward Albee

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The Bessie Smith companion : a critical and detailed appreciation of the recordings more books like this

by Edward Brooks

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Bessie Smith more books like this

by Florence Martin

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Out of Chattanooga more books like this

by Clifford Eberhardt

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