A Bad Woman Feeling Good: Blues and the Women Who Sing Them by Buzzy Jackson

A Bad Woman Feeling Good: Blues and the Women Who Sing Them

Buzzy Jackson

336 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history music informative slow-paced
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An exciting lineage of women singers—originating with Ma Rainey and her protégée Bessie Smith—shaped the blues, launching it as a powerful, expressive vehicle of emotional liberation. Along with their successors Billie Holiday, Etta James, Aretha ...

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