Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
New York: Vintage Books / Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011
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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 conciousness-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.
Intro -- About the Author -- Other Books by This Author -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I Used to be Your Sweet Mama: Ideology, Sexuality, and Domesticity -- Mama's Got the Blues: Rivals, Girlfriends, and Advisors -- Here Come My Train: Traveling Themes and Women's Blues -- Blame It on the Blues: Bessie Smith, Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, and the Politics Of Blues Protest -- Preaching the Blues: Spirituality and Self-Consciousness -- Up in Harlem Every Saturday Night: Blues and the Black Aesthetic -- When a Woman Loves a Man: Social Implications of Billie Holiday's Love Songs -- "Strange Fruit": Music and Social Consciousness -- Lyrics to Songs Recorded by: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey -- Lyrics to Songs Recorded by: Bessie Smith -- Notes -- Works Consulted -- Permissions Acknowledgments.
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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Davis, Angela Y. (1944-) |
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Veröffentlichung: | New York: Vintage Books / Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011 |
Medientyp: | Monographie |
Datenträgertyp: | Elektronische Ressource |
Umfang: | 1 online resource (334 pages) |
ISBN: | 9780307574442 |
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