Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga : Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South /
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2008]
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Introduction: uncovering the life of a blues woman
- Beyond the contraband camps: Black Chattanooga from the Civil War to 1880
- The freest town on the map: Black migration to new south Chattanooga
- The empress's playground: Bessie Smith and Black childhood in the urban South
- Life on Big Ninth Street: the emerging blues culture in Chattanooga
- An empress in vaudeville: Bessie Smith on the theater circuit.