Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga
Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South
As one of the first African American vocalists to be recorded, Bessie Smith is a prominent figure in American popular culture and African American history. Michelle R. Scott uses Smith's life as a lens to investigate broad issues in history, including industrialization, Southern rural to urban migration, black community development in the post-emancipation era, and black working-class gender conventions. Arguing that the rise of blues culture and the success of female blues artists like Bessie Smith are connected to the rapid migration and industrialization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Scott focuses her analysis on…
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- ISBN: 978-0-252-07545-2
- EAN: 9780252075452
- Produktnummer: 3422223
- Verlag: University of Illinois Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 216 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.0 cm 363 g
- Gewicht: 363
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
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