Davis Angela Y.
Davis Angela Y. - Blues Legacies And Black Feminism Gertrude Ma Rainey - Paperback
Davis Angela Y. - Blues Legacies And Black Feminism Gertrude Ma Rainey - Paperback
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Description: 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.
Title: Blues Legacies And Black Feminism Gertrude Ma Rainey
Author(s): Davis Angela Y.
Publisher: Random House Usa Inc
Barcode: 9780679771265
Pages: 428 Pages
Publication Date: 1/26/1999
Category: Black & Asian Studies
Description: 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.
Title: Blues Legacies And Black Feminism Gertrude Ma Rainey
Author(s): Davis Angela Y.
Publisher: Random House Usa Inc
Barcode: 9780679771265
Pages: 428 Pages
Publication Date: 1/26/1999
Category: Black & Asian Studies
