Blues Legacies and Black Feminism
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism 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…
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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism
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. 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. 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.
Through meticulous transcriptions of all the extant lyrics of Rainey and
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