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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism; Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
by Davis, Angela Y
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- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 0679771263
- ISBN 13
- 9780679771265
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United States of America: Vintage Books, 1998. Later printing. New. 427pp. Octavo [20.5 cm]. Illustrated wraps. From the publisher:
"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.
"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.
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- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 58327
- Title
- Blues Legacies and Black Feminism; Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
- Author
- Davis, Angela Y
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 4
- Edition
- Later printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0679771263
- ISBN 13
- 9780679771265
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Place of Publication
- United States of America
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- Angela Davis; Blues; Music; Women's studies; Feminism; African American studies; Gertrude Rainey; Bessie Smith; Billie Holiday; bhm; leo; whm
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