Blues Legacies And Black Feminism
Gertrude Ma Rainey
$42.04
- Paperback
428 pages
- Release Date
15 April 1999
Summary
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.
…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679771265 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0679771263 |
| Author: | Angela Y. Davis |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 428 |
| Release Date: | 15 April 1999 |
| Weight: | 420g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 130mm |
| Series: | Vintage |
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About The Author
Angela Y. Davis
Angela Y. Davis is a political activist, scholar, author, and speaker. She is an outspoken advocate for the oppressed and exploited, writing on Black liberation, prison abolition, the intersections of race, gender, and class, and international solidarity with Palestine. She is the author of several books, including Women, Race, and Class and Are Prisons Obsolete? She is the subject of the acclaimed documentary Free Angela and All Political Prisoners and is distinguished professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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