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Book: B Jenkins
Series: Refiguring American Music
Published: 01 January 2010
DOI: 10.1215/9780822392675-017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9267-5
Series: Refiguring American Music
Published: 20 September 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5996-7
... Bessie Smith Sophie Tucker Ethel Waters belter blues ...
Series: Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study
Published: 26 April 2021
EISBN: 978-1-4780-1242-9
... Amiri Baraka Bessie Smith Dutchman “Crazy Blues” sublimation ...
Series: Refiguring American Music
Published: 20 September 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059967-002
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5996-7
... of what was being transmitted. The reader is invited to listen for lessons in the first three decades of the twentieth century—lessons both acknowledged and disavowed—attended by Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, Sophie Tucker, Ethel Waters, and Ethel Merman. Attuned to the multiplicity of vocal colors...
Series: Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study
Published: 26 April 2021
DOI: 10.1215/9781478012429-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-1242-9
... This brief interlude, “‘No Wiggles in the Dark of Her Soul’: Black Neurosis, Art, and Murder,” begins with a provocation from Clay, the protagonist of Amiri Baraka’s play Dutchman (1964): “If Bessie Smith had killed some white people she wouldn’t have needed that music. . . . No metaphors...
