Ma Rainey And The Classic Blues Singers

Author : Derrick Stewart-Baxter
Publisher : Stein & Day Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780812813210
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ma Rainey and the Classic Blues Singers written by Derrick Stewart-Baxter and published by Stein & Day Pub. This book was released on 1970-01-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrait of the musical careers of popular women, exponents of the classic period of blues vocal music. Discog

Author : Sandra R. Lieb
Publisher : [Amherst] : University of Massachusetts Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mother of the Blues written by Sandra R. Lieb and published by [Amherst] : University of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Sandra Robin Lieb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Message of Ma Rainey's Blues written by Sandra Robin Lieb and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paige A. McGinley
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822376318
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Staging the Blues written by Paige A. McGinley and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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 : Buzzy Jackson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393059367
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Bad Woman Feeling Good: Blues and the Women Who Sing Them written by Buzzy Jackson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005-02-17 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the artistic heritage of numerous women blues singers, from Ma Rainey and Billie Holiday to Aretha Franklin and Tina Turner, exploring the messages within their songs and images while discussing their contributions to music and American history. 15,000 first printing.

Author : John L. Clark (Jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781438491554
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blues on Stage written by John L. Clark (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tells the story of classic blues singers from Ma Rainey to Bessie Smith"--

Author : August Wilson
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
ISBN 13 : 9780573681134
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ma Rainey's Black Bottom written by August Wilson and published by Concord Theatricals. This book was released on 1985 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recording session by black blues great Ma Rainey for white-owned studio, setting for exploration of racial relations and conflicts.

Author : Lynn Abbott
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496810031
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Original Blues written by Lynn Abbott and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blues Book of the Year —Living Blues Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence Best Historical Research in Recorded Blues, Gospel, Soul, or R&B–Certificate of Merit (2018) With this volume, Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff complete their groundbreaking trilogy on the development of African American popular music. Fortified by decades of research, the authors bring to life the performers, entrepreneurs, critics, venues, and institutions that were most crucial to the emergence of the blues in black southern vaudeville theaters; the shadowy prehistory and early development of the blues is illuminated, detailed, and given substance. At the end of the nineteenth century, vaudeville began to replace minstrelsy as America’s favorite form of stage entertainment. Segregation necessitated the creation of discrete African American vaudeville theaters. When these venues first gained popularity, ragtime coon songs were the standard fare. Insular black southern theaters provided a safe haven, where coon songs underwent rehabilitation and blues songs suitable for the professional stage were formulated. The process was energized by dynamic interaction between the performers and their racially-exclusive audience. The first blues star of black vaudeville was Butler “String Beans” May, a blackface comedian from Montgomery, Alabama. Before his bizarre, senseless death in 1917, String Beans was recognized as the “blues master piano player of the world.” His musical legacy, elusive and previously unacknowledged, is preserved in the repertoire of country blues singer-guitarists and pianists of the race recording era. While male blues singers remained tethered to the role of blackface comedian, female “coon shouters” acquired a more dignified aura in the emergent persona of the “blues queen.” Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and most of their contemporaries came through this portal; while others, such as forgotten blues heroine Ora Criswell and her protégé Trixie Smith, ingeniously reconfigured the blackface mask for their own subversive purposes. In 1921 black vaudeville activity was effectively nationalized by the Theater Owners Booking Association (T.O.B.A.). In collaboration with the emergent race record industry, T.O.B.A. theaters featured touring companies headed by blues queens with records to sell. By this time the blues had moved beyond the confines of entertainment for an exclusively black audience. Small-time black vaudeville became something it had never been before—a gateway to big-time white vaudeville circuits, burlesque wheels, and fancy metropolitan cabarets. While the 1920s was the most glamorous and remunerative period of vaudeville blues, the prior decade was arguably even more creative, having witnessed the emergence, popularization, and early development of the original blues on the African American vaudeville stage.

Author : Robert Ford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135865078
Total Pages : 2397 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Blues Bibliography written by Robert Ford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 2397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Blues Bibliography, Second Edition is a revised and enlarged version of the definitive blues bibliography first published in 1999. Material previously omitted from the first edition has now been included, and the bibliography has been expanded to include works published since then. In addition to biographical references, this work includes entries on the history and background of the blues, instruments, record labels, reference sources, regional variations and lyric transcriptions and musical analysis. The Blues Bibliography is an invaluable guide to the enthusiastic market among libraries specializing in music and African-American culture and among individual blues scholars.