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UNINA9910785752503321 |
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Autore |
Scott Michelle R. <1974-> |
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Titolo |
Blues empress in black Chattanooga [[electronic resource] ] : Bessie Smith and the emerging urban South / / Michelle R. Scott |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-58315-1 |
9786613895608 |
0-252-09237-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (218 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Singers - United States |
Blues (Music) - Tennessee - Chattanooga - History and criticism |
African Americans - Tennessee - Chattanooga - History |
Chattanooga (Tenn.) History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-191) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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