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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785752503321

Autore

Scott Michelle R. <1974->

Titolo

Blues empress in black Chattanooga [[electronic resource] ] : Bessie Smith and the emerging urban South / / Michelle R. Scott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2008

ISBN

1-283-58315-1

9786613895608

0-252-09237-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (218 p.)

Disciplina

782.421643092

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Soggetti

Singers - United States

Blues (Music) - Tennessee - Chattanooga - History and criticism

African Americans - Tennessee - Chattanooga - History

Chattanooga (Tenn.) History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-191) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: uncovering the life of a blues woman -- Beyond the contraband camps: Black Chattanooga from the Civil War to 1880 -- The freest town on the map: Black migration to new south Chattanooga -- The empress's playground: Bessie Smith and Black childhood in the urban South -- Life on Big Ninth Street: the emerging blues culture in Chattanooga -- An empress in vaudeville: Bessie Smith on the theater circuit.