Bessie Smith

Author : Jackie Kay
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0593314271
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bessie Smith written by Jackie Kay and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful genre-bending tribute to the larger-than-life blues singer Bessie Smith. Scotland’s National Poet blends poetry, prose, fiction, and nonfiction to create an entirely unique biography of the Empress of the Blues. There has never been anyone else like Bessie Smith. Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1894 and orphaned by the age of nine, Bessie Smith sang on street corners before becoming a big name in traveling shows. In 1923, she made her first recording for the newly founded Columbia Records. It sold 780,000 copies and catapulted her to fame. Known for her unmatched vocal talent, her timeless and personal blues narratives, her tough persona, and her ability to enrapture audiences with her raw voice, the Empress of the Blues remains a force and an enigma. In this remarkable book, Kay combines history and personal narrative, poetry and prose to create an enthralling account of an extraordinary life, and to capture the soul of the woman she first identified with as a young Black girl growing up in Glasgow. Powerful and moving, Bessie Smith is at once a vivid biography of a central figure in American music history and a personal story about one woman’s search for recognition. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL.

Author : Sue Stauffacher
Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bessie Smith and the Night Riders written by Sue Stauffacher and published by G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black blues singer Bessie Smith single-handedly scares off Ku Klux Klan members who are trying to disrupt her show one hot July night in Concord, North Carolina. Includes historical note.

Author : Angela Y. Davis
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030757444X
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blues Legacies and Black Feminism written by Angela Y. Davis and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : David Crittendon
Publisher : Blurb
ISBN 13 : 9781006351785
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Then See If I Care written by David Crittendon and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2021-10-27 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Crittendon's historic blues novella, THEN SEE IF I CARE: A Story About Bessie Smith, makes you feel her yearning down to your bones. This is no low-down, foot-dragging dirge. With prose that rings true to African American idiom yet resounds with Crittendon's singular poetic voice, THEN SEE IF I CARE is by turns defiant, bawdy, mocking, starkly bitter, and jubilant, initiating us into an encounter with the woman behind the legend.

Author : Edward Albee
Publisher : New Amer Library
ISBN 13 : 9780452260832
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sandbox ; And, The Death of Bessie Smith ; With, Fam and Yam written by Edward Albee and published by New Amer Library. This book was released on 1988 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two modern plays explore the spiritual and tragic aspects of the human struggle with death

Author : Michelle R. Scott
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252033388
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga written by Michelle R. Scott and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cultural and industrial reconstruction of the South, explored through a major figure in early black music

Author : Elaine Feinstein
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bessie Smith written by Elaine Feinstein and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1985 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Melanie E. Bratcher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135861447
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Words and Songs of Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, and Nina Simone written by Melanie E. Bratcher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-11-21 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the relationship between three African American women's dance-art-music sensibilities within the context of a Pan African aesthetic. Its purpose is three-fold: to show commonalities between Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday and Nina Simone's lives and original compositions; to codify, examine and evaluate their selected song performances in accordance with the Pan African aesthetic "Nzuri theory/model;" and to illuminate the vast sources of transformational values that aesthetic analysis of African American song performance can foster. Following concordant procedures and principles of Afrocentricity, the study focuses on Smith, Holiday and Simone's performances as part of a whole African artistic and cultural value system. The goal of the Afrocentric methodological structure is to locate relevant African dynamics in songs and to promote knowledge for cultural transformation and continuity. Its use in this study provides meta-criteria for analyzing African American music, which the author has used to uniquely argue connections between African cultural memory and African-derived cultural expression.

Author : Benjamin Ivry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781899791552
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arthur Rimbaud written by Benjamin Ivry and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Will Friedwald
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780306807121
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jazz Singing written by Will Friedwald and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1996-08-22 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: