Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie HolidayPantheon Books, 1998 - 427 من الصفحات 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 consciousness-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. -- Back cover |
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... black people . Such issues were often stated in such a way that the mere naming of the problem was likely to provoke at least a rudimentary community consciousness of the need for eventual social transformation . Finally , there are ...
... black people . Such issues were often stated in such a way that the mere naming of the problem was likely to provoke at least a rudimentary community consciousness of the need for eventual social transformation . Finally , there are ...
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... community is channeled through the church , it may be helpful to look at cultural challenges to the church's ... black church of traditionally Christian dualism , which defines spirit as " good " and body as “ evil , ” denied black ...
... community is channeled through the church , it may be helpful to look at cultural challenges to the church's ... black church of traditionally Christian dualism , which defines spirit as " good " and body as “ evil , ” denied black ...
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... black community and the crystallization of a black middle class and a black intelligentsia , it was essential to preserve the culture that had been born . from the experiences of the masses . Even as the blues was being treated by most ...
... black community and the crystallization of a black middle class and a black intelligentsia , it was essential to preserve the culture that had been born . from the experiences of the masses . Even as the blues was being treated by most ...
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IDEOLOGY SEXUALITY AND DOMESTICITY | 3 |
MAMAS GOT THE BLUES | 23 |
RIVALS GIRLFRIENDS AND ADVISORS | 42 |
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