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Jazz, it is widely accepted, is the signal original American contribution to world culture. Angela Davis shows us how the roots of that form in the blues must be viewed not only as a musical tradition but as a life-sustaining vehicle for an alternative black working-class collective memory and social consciousness profoundly at odds with mainstream American middle-class values.
And she explains how the tradition of black women blues singers - represented by Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday - embodies not only an artistic triumph and aesthetic dominance over a hostile popular music industry but an unacknowledged proto-feminist consciousness within working-class black communities.
Through a close and riveting analysis of these artists' performances, words, and lives, Davis uncovers the unmistakable assertion and uncompromising celebration of non-middle-class, non-heterosexual social, moral, and sexual values.
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Blues (Music), African American women, Feminism and music, History and criticism, Women blues musicians, Texts, African American women singers, Chanteuses américaines, Negers, Zangeressen, Feminisme, Blues, Feminismus, Protected DAISYPeople
Ma Rainey (1886-1939), Billie Holiday (1915-1959), Bessie Smith (1894-1937), Bessie Smith (1898?-1937)Places
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Blues legacies and black feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
1999, Vintage
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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
January 26, 1999, Vintage
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Blues legacies and Black feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
1998, Pantheon Books
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