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- Book Title
- Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging
- ISBN
- 9780252075452
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
ISBN-10
0252075455
ISBN-13
9780252075452
eBay Product ID (ePID)
63190403
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
216 Pages
Publication Name
Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga : Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Subject
History & Criticism, Genres & Styles / Blues, Composers & Musicians, General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Music, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
12.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2007-052615
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"An important, new retrospective on the life and community in which renowned blues singer Bessie Smith was raised. Scott provides an excellent account of the dynamics of race, sex, and material wealth in Tennessee as it developed into a pivotal transportation and manufacturing region in the postwar South. A model for popular culture courses, this book will also be useful in American studies, American history, African American studies, sociology, and women's studies classes." Daphne Duval Harrison, author ofBlack Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s, "In this interesting, highly readable, and meticulously documented account, Scott ... crafts a fascinating social history by discussing the post-Civil War growth of the African American community in Chattanooga."-- History: Reviews of New Books, "An interesting, solidly researched, well-organized, well-told contribution to the social history of the blues. . . . Recommended."-- Choice, "A richly researched, painstakingly documented glimpse of southern urban life around the turn of the twentieth century."-- Journal of American Ethnic History, "An important, new retrospective on the life and community in which renowned blues singer Bessie Smith was raised. Scott provides an excellent account of the dynamics of race, sex, and material wealth in Tennessee as it developed into a pivotal transportation and manufacturing region in the postwar South. A model for popular culture courses, this book will also be useful in American studies, American history, African American studies, sociology, and women's studies classes." Daphne Duval Harrison, author of Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s, "A richly researched, painstakingly documented glimpse of southern urban life around the turn of the twentieth century."-- Journal of American Ethnic History
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
782.421643092 B
Synopsis
As one of the first African American vocalists to be recorded, Bessie Smith is a prominent figure in American popular culture and African American history. Michelle R. Scott uses Smith's life as a lens to investigate broad issues in history, including industrialization, Southern rural to urban migration, black community development in the post-emancipation era, and black working-class gender conventions. Focusing her analysis on Chattanooga, Tennessee, the large industrial and transportation center where Smith was born, Scott explores how the expansion of the Southern railroads and the development of iron foundries, steel mills, and sawmills created vast employment opportunities in the postbellum era, contributing to Chattanooga's African American community and an emergent blues culture., As one of the first African American vocalists to be recorded, Bessie Smith is a prominent figure in American popular culture and African American history. Michelle R. Scott uses Smith's life as a lens to investigate broad issues in history, including industrialization, Southern rural to urban migration, black community development in the ......, As one of the first African American vocalists to be recorded, Bessie Smith is a prominent figure in American popular culture and African American history. Michelle R. Scott uses Smith's life as a lens to investigate broad issues in history, including industrialization, Southern rural to urban migration, black community development in the post-emancipation era, and black working-class gender conventions. Arguing that the rise of blues culture and the success of female blues artists like Bessie Smith are connected to the rapid migration and industrialization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Scott focuses her analysis on Chattanooga, Tennessee, the large industrial and transportation center where Smith was born. This study explores how the expansion of the Southern railroads and the development of iron foundries, steel mills, and sawmills created vast employment opportunities in the postbellum era. Chronicling the growth and development of the African American Chattanooga community, Scott examines the Smith family's migration to Chattanooga and the popular music of black Chattanooga during the first decade of the twentieth century, and culminates by delving into Smith's early years on the vaudeville circuit.
LC Classification Number
ML420.S667S36 2008
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