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- ISBN: 0679771263
- ISBN: 9780679771265
- Physical Description: xx, 427 pages, [12] pages of plates : ... Read More
- Edition: 1st Vintage books edition
- Publisher: New York : Vintage, 1999
- Copyright: ©1998
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | I used to be your sweet mama : ideology, ... Read More |
| Summary, etc.: | "Jazz, it is widely accepted, is the signal ... Read More |
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"Jazz, it is widely accepted, is the signal original American contribution to world culture. Angela Davis shows us how the roots of that form in the blues must be viewed not only as a musical tradition but as a life-sustaining vehicle for an alternative black working-class collective memory and social consciousness profoundly at odds with mainstream American middle-class values. And she explains how the tradition of black women blues singers - represented by Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday - embodies not only an artistic triumph and aesthetic dominance over a hostile popular music industry but an unacknowledged proto-feminist consciousness within working-class black communities. Through a close and riveting analysis of these artists' performances, words, and lives, Davis uncovers the unmistakable assertion and uncompromising celebration of non-middle-class, non-heterosexual social, moral, and sexual values."--Jacket.