Blues legacies and Black feminism : Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
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Published
New York : Pantheon Books, 1999.
Status
Central - Adult Nonfiction
782.421643 DAVIS
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782.421643 DAVIS
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Published
New York : Pantheon Books, 1999.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xx, 427 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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 consciousness-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. -- Back cover.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Davis, A. Y. 1. (1999). Blues legacies and Black feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday . Pantheon Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Davis, Angela Y. 1944-. 1999. Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday. Pantheon Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Davis, Angela Y. 1944-. Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday Pantheon Books, 1999.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Davis, Angela Y. 1944-. Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday Pantheon Books, 1999.
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