Mother Of The Blues
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Mother Of The Blues
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Author : Sandra R. Lieb
language : en
Publisher: [Amherst] : University of Massachusetts Press
Release Date : 1981
Mother Of The Blues written by Sandra R. Lieb and has been published by [Amherst] : University of Massachusetts Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Briefly portrays the life of the influential blues singer, Ma Rainey, discusses the development of her music, and analyzes the theme of love in her music.
Mother Of The Blues
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Author : Sandra R. Lieb
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Mother Of The Blues written by Sandra R. Lieb and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with categories.
Staging The Blues
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Author : Paige A. McGinley
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2014-09-10
Staging The Blues written by Paige A. McGinley and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-10 with Music categories.
Singing was just one element of blues performance in the early twentieth century. Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and other classic blues singers also tapped, joked, and flaunted extravagant costumes on tent show and black vaudeville stages. The press even described these women as "actresses" long before they achieved worldwide fame for their musical recordings. In Staging the Blues, Paige A. McGinley shows that even though folklorists, record producers, and festival promoters set the theatricality of early blues aside in favor of notions of authenticity, it remained creatively vibrant throughout the twentieth century. Highlighting performances by Rainey, Smith, Lead Belly, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Sonny Terry, and Brownie McGhee in small Mississippi towns, Harlem theaters, and the industrial British North, this pioneering study foregrounds virtuoso blues artists who used the conventions of the theater, including dance, comedy, and costume, to stage black mobility, to challenge narratives of racial authenticity, and to fight for racial and economic justice.
The Human Tradition In The New South
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Author : James C. Klotter
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date : 2005-09-21
The Human Tradition In The New South written by James C. Klotter and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-09-21 with History categories.
In The Human Tradition in the New South, historian James C. Klotter brings together twelve biographical essays that explore the region's political, economic, and social development since the Civil War. Like all books in this series, these essays chronicle the lives of ordinary Americans whose lives and contributions help to highlight the great transformations that occurred in the South. With profiles ranging from Winnie Davis to Dizzy Dean, from Ralph David Abernathy to Harland Sanders, The Human Tradition in the New South brings to life this dynamic and vibrant region and is an excellent resource for courses in Southern history, race relations, social history, and the American history survey.
Georgia Women
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Author : Betty Wood
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2009
Georgia Women written by Betty Wood and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The essays in the second volume of Georgia Women portray a wide array of Georgia women who played an important role in the state's history, from little-known Progressive Era activists to famous present-day figures such as Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter.
The Embodiment Of Disobedience
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Author : Andrea Elizabeth Shaw
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2006-07-27
The Embodiment Of Disobedience written by Andrea Elizabeth Shaw and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-27 with Social Science categories.
Despite the West's privileging of slenderness as an aesthetic ideal, the African Diaspora has historically displayed a resistance to the Western European and North American indulgence in 'fat anxiety.' The Embodiment of Disobedience explores the ways in which the African Diaspora has rejected the West's efforts to impose imperatives of slenderness and mass market fat-anxiety. Author Andrea Shaw explores the origins and contradictions of this phenomenon, especially the cultural deviations in beauty criteria and the related social and cultural practices. Unique in its examination of how both fatness and blackness interact on literary cultural planes, this book also offers a diasporic scope that develops previously unexamined connections among female representations throughout the African Diaspora.
King Of The Blues
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Author : Daniel de Visé
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Release Date : 2021-10-14
King Of The Blues written by Daniel de Visé and has been published by Atlantic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-14 with Music categories.
'Without a doubt the most important artist the blues has ever produced' Eric Clapton 'No one did more to spread the gospel of the blues' President Barack Obama ' One part of me says, "Yes, of course I can play." But the other part of me says, "Well, I wish I could just do it like B.B. King."' John Lennon Riley 'Blues Boy' King (1925-2015) was born into deep poverty in Mississippi. Wrenched away from his sharecropper father, B.B. lost his mother at age ten, leaving him more or less alone. Music became his emancipation from exhausting toil in the fields. Inspired by a local minister's guitar and by the records of Blind Lemon Jefferson and T-Bone Walker, B.B. taught his guitar to sing in the unique solo style that, along with his relentless work ethic and humanity, became his trademark. In turn, generations of artists claimed him as inspiration, from Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton to Carlos Santana and the Edge. King of the Blues presents the vibrant life and times of a trailblazing giant. Witness to dark prejudice and lynching in his youth, B.B. performed incessantly (more than fifteen thousand concerts in ninety countries over nearly sixty years) - in some real way his means of escaping his past. His career roller-coasted between adulation and relegation, but he always rose back up. At the same time, his story reveals the many ways record companies took advantage of artists, especially those of colour. Daniel de Visé has interviewed almost every surviving member of B.B. King's inner circle - family, band members, retainers, managers and more - and their voices and memories enrich and enliven the life of this Mississippi blues titan, whom his contemporary Bobby 'Blue' Bland simply called 'the man.'
Lady Sings The Blues
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Author : Billie Holiday
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2018-11-29
Lady Sings The Blues written by Billie Holiday and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-29 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"I've been told that no one sings the word 'hunger' like I do. Or the word 'love'." Lady Sings the Blues is the inimitable autobiography of one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century. Born to a single mother in 1915 Baltimore, Billie Holiday had her first run-in with the law at aged 13. But Billie Holiday is no victim. Her memoir tells the story of her life spent in jazz, smoky Harlem clubs and packed-out concert halls, her love affairs, her wildly creative friends, her struggles with addiction and her adventures in love. Billie Holiday is a wise and aphoristic guide to the story of her unforgettable life.
Blues Legacies And Black Feminism
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Author : Angela Y. Davis
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-10-05
Blues Legacies And Black Feminism written by Angela Y. Davis and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-05 with Social Science categories.
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.
The Blues Encyclopedia
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Author : Edward Komara
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-07-01
The Blues Encyclopedia written by Edward Komara and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-07-01 with Music categories.
The Blues Encyclopedia is the first full-length authoritative Encyclopedia on the Blues as a musical form. While other books have collected biographies of blues performers, none have taken a scholarly approach. A to Z in format, this Encyclopedia covers not only the performers, but also musical styles, regions, record labels and cultural aspects of the blues, including race and gender issues. Special attention is paid to discographies and bibliographies.