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 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.

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Blues Legacies And Black Feminism

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Examining the lives and art of black women blues singers an african american professor argues that they expressed a black working class feminist perspective that opposed both white mainstream culture and that of the black middle class reprint 17 500 first printing Uiterlijk 6 december in huis .. MEER INFO

The Hero And the Blues

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In this visionary book murray takes an audacious new look at black music and in the process succeeds in changing the way one reads literature murray s subject is the previously unacknowledged kinship between fiction and the blues both he argues are virtuoso performances that impart informatio Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

Survival Takes a Wild Imagination

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In the powerful follow up to her critically acclaimed debut collection poet and activist fariha r is n is writing praying clawing and scratching her way out of the grips of generational trauma on the search for the freedom her mother never received and the kindness she couldn t give this co Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: E-book

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 05 oktober 2011

Ebook Formaat: Adobe ePub

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Hoofdauteur: Angela Davis

Tweede Auteur: Angela Davis

Co Auteur: Angela Yvonne Davis

Hoofduitgeverij: Vintage

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Product breedte: 133 mm

Product hoogte: 25 mm

Product lengte: 216 mm

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Verpakking hoogte: 25 mm

EAN: 9780307574442

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