SOCIETY & SOCIAL SCIENCES
26 €
Coup de coeur
(Music), by Mariama
Angela Davis explores the significant role of female voices more specifically Ma Reiny, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday, in shaping blues. She rehabilitates their music as groundwork for socially conscious art, unafraid of exploring the personal and political lives of black people. Through a feminist lens, Davis analyzes their lyrics and performances within a political, social, and historical context. She demonstrates how blues provided a space for Black women's emancipation in the post-slavery era.
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.
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 26 Jan 1999
Dimensions: 204 x 134 x 27 mm
ISBN: 9780679771265
