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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism
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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 Americ
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Technical specifications
Release date | January 26th 1999 |
Language | English |
Publisher | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
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Accessibility | No information is available regarding the accessibility of the format Paper |