Blues Legacies and Black Feminism Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
by DAVIS, ANGELA Y.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-01-26
Publisher(s): Vintage
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Summary
'Angela Davis's book is a complete revelation to me and a serious re-education.' Toni Morrison From the author of 'Women, Race & Class' comes a brilliant analysis of the blues which 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 the articulation of a black, working- class, feminist consciousness at odds with mainstream American culture.
Author Biography
Angela Y. Davis is a political activist, scholar, author, and speaker. She is an outspoken advocate for the oppressed and exploited, writing on Black liberation, prison abolition, the intersections of race, gender, and class, and international solidarity with Palestine. She is the author of several books, including Women, Race, and Class and Are Prisons Obsolete? She is the subject of the acclaimed documentary Free Angela and All Political Prisoners and is distinguished professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Table of Contents
I. I Used to Be Your Sweet Mama: Ideology, Sexuality and Domesticity
II. Blame It On the Blues: Bessie Smith, “Ma” Rainey and the Politics of Blues Protest
III. Mama’s Got The Blues: Rivals, Girlfriends and Advisors
IV. Here Come My Train: Traveling Themes in Ma Rainey’s Blues
V. Preaching the Blues: Spirituality and Self-Consciousness
VI. Up In Harlem Every Saturday Night: Blues and the Black Aesthetic
VII. When A Woman Loves A Man: Social Implications of Billie Holiday’s Love Songs
VIII. Strange Fruit: Music and Social Consciousness
Lyrics to Songs Recorded by Gertrude “Ma” Rainey
Lyrics to Songs Recorded by Bessie Smith
Notes
Works Consulted
Index
Permissions Acknowledgments
II. Blame It On the Blues: Bessie Smith, “Ma” Rainey and the Politics of Blues Protest
III. Mama’s Got The Blues: Rivals, Girlfriends and Advisors
IV. Here Come My Train: Traveling Themes in Ma Rainey’s Blues
V. Preaching the Blues: Spirituality and Self-Consciousness
VI. Up In Harlem Every Saturday Night: Blues and the Black Aesthetic
VII. When A Woman Loves A Man: Social Implications of Billie Holiday’s Love Songs
VIII. Strange Fruit: Music and Social Consciousness
Lyrics to Songs Recorded by Gertrude “Ma” Rainey
Lyrics to Songs Recorded by Bessie Smith
Notes
Works Consulted
Index
Permissions Acknowledgments
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