Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie HolidayKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1998 - 464 páginas 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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... direct descendant of work songs , which often relied on indirection and irony to highlight the inhumanity of slave owners so that their targets were sure to misunderstand the intended meaning.68 Bessie Smith sings a number of songs ...
... direct descendant of work songs , which often relied on indirection and irony to highlight the inhumanity of slave owners so that their targets were sure to misunderstand the intended meaning.68 Bessie Smith sings a number of songs ...
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... direct transla- tion of blues images into a visual and linear narrative violates blues dis- course , which is always complicated , contextualized , and informed by that which is unspoken as well as by that which is named . St. Louis ...
... direct transla- tion of blues images into a visual and linear narrative violates blues dis- course , which is always complicated , contextualized , and informed by that which is unspoken as well as by that which is named . St. Louis ...
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... direct social protest " in blues songs can be explained without denying their powerful political content . " Protest " implies the existence of formal political chan- nels through which dissent can be collectively expressed . In this ...
... direct social protest " in blues songs can be explained without denying their powerful political content . " Protest " implies the existence of formal political chan- nels through which dissent can be collectively expressed . In this ...
Contenido
USED TO BE YOUR SWEET MAMA | 3 |
MAMAS GOT THE BLUES | 23 |
RIVALS GIRLFRIENDS AND ADVISORS | 42 |
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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and ... Angela Y. Davis Vista previa limitada - 2011 |
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and ... Angela Y. Davis Vista previa limitada - 1999 |
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and ... Angela Yvonne Davis Vista de fragmentos - 1998 |
Términos y frases comunes
aesthetic African African-American ain't American baby Bessie Smith Billie Holiday black community black women blame BLUES Bessie Smith BLUES Gertrude Rainey blues women bo-weevil Bound Blues bout cause Clara Clarence Williams classic blues consciousness Copyright cryin daddy Empty Bed Blues feel feelin female feminist folks Gertrude Ma gimme goin gone gonna goodbye Harlem Renaissance hear Hearted Blues historical Holiday's honey House Blues jail jazz Langston Hughes leavin listen lives lonesome Lord Lordy Lovie Austin lovin Ma Rainey male mama's MCA Music Publishing mean mistreated moan mornin Negro night Nobody's nothin papa Paramount performance political popular protest racism Rainey's recorded sexual sing slave slavery social song Spencer Williams spirituals stay Strange Fruit SUNG talkin tell there's thing town tryin Universal Studios woman women's blues working-class worried York Zora Neale Hurston
Referencias a este libro
The Power of Critical Theory for Adult Learning And Teaching Stephen Brookfield Sin vista previa disponible - 2007 |
Channeling Blackness: Studies on Television and Race in America Darnell M. Hunt Vista de fragmentos - 2005 |