Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday

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 articul...
By Angela Y. Davis
Paperback: 464 pages
Publisher: Vintage; 1st Vintage Books Ed edition (January 26, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0679771263
ISBN-13: 978-0679771265
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.9 x 8 inches
Format: PDF ePub djvu ebook
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This is a great complement to Davis' writings on the prison industrial complex, as it finds an 'aesthetic dimension' (Marcuse) latent in women blues singers of the twenties that articulate Black working class women's experience....
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