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UNINA9910966006203321 |
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Scott Michelle R. <1974-> |
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Blues empress in black Chattanooga : Bessie Smith and the emerging urban South / / Michelle R. Scott |
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Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2008 |
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1-283-58315-1 |
9786613895608 |
0-252-09237-6 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (218 p.) |
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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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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-191) and index. |
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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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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. _x000B__x000B_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, |
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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. |
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UNINA9910953949503321 |
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Autore |
Cooke Lynn P. |
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Gender-class equality in political economies / / Lynn Prince Cooke |
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New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
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1-135-84750-9 |
1-283-04592-3 |
9786613045928 |
1-135-84751-7 |
0-203-89062-0 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (287 p.) |
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Sexual division of labor |
Pay equity |
Women - Employment - Government policy |
Women - Economic conditions |
Minorities - Employment - Government policy |
Minorities - Economic conditions |
Labor policy - Social aspects |
Income distribution - Social aspects |
Equality |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front Cover; Gender-Class Equality in Political Economies; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Series Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Gender-Class Equality Over Time; Introduction; The State and Institutional Equality Frames; The Country Cases: Policy Effects on Class v. Gender Equality; The Resilience of Inequality Within Its Institutional Frame; Book Overview; Chapter 2: Paid and Unpaid Work in Context; Introduction; Gender Differences in Labor Supply and Demand; The State and the Labor Market; The State and a Gendered Division of Household Labor |
So What Happened to the Gender Revolution?Gender-Class Equality in Post-Industrial Economies; Summary: Policy Paths and Gender-Class Equality; Chapter 3: Population Policies and Group Divides; Introduction; Nineteenth-Century Expansion and Women's Bodies; Nineteenth-Century Immigration Policies; Post-War Family Policies; Immigration Policies in the Post-War Economic Recovery; Reproduction in the "New" Global Economy; Immigration in the "New" Global Economy; Summary: New World, Old Social Order; Chapter 4: Educational Foundations of Equality; Education and the Institutional Equality Frame |
Group Differences in Educational FoundationsPost-War Expansion of Pre-Primary Provision; More Secondary Education for All; Expanding Educational Attainment; Educational Structures and Relative Group Equality; Chapter 5: Policy Foundations of Gender-Class Employment Equality; Introduction; Australian Versus US Nineteenth-Century Worker Mobilization; European Post-War Employment Policies; Australian Versus US Post-War Equality Initiatives; The European Union and Gender Equality; Work-family Reconciliation Policies and Gender Equality; Gender-Class Employment Equality in the Twenty-First Century |
Chapter 6: Current Gender-Class Employment EqualityIntroduction; The Institutional Equality Frame and Employment Status; Individual Characteristics and Employment in Context; Weekly Work Hours of Employed Individuals in Context; Gender-Class Wage Inequalities in Context; Summary: Employment Equality in Its Institutional Equality Frame; Technical Appendix; Chapter 7: Gender-Class Equality in Paid and Unpaid Work; Introduction; Housework Over Time and Across Countries; Who Does Any Housework in Context?; Predicting Individual Housework Hours in Context |
Couple Time in Paid and Unpaid Work in ContextEquality Exchanges in Their Institutional Frames; Technical Appendix; Chapter 8: Sustainable Policy for Greater Equality; The Resilience of Complex Inequality; The Inefficiency of Market Inequalities; Social Investment Strategies; Policy and Sustainable Unpaid Time; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Gender-Class Equality in Political Economies offers an in-depth analysis of gender-class equality across six countries to reveal why gender-class equality in paid and unpaid work remains elusive, and what more policy might do to achieve better social and economic outcomes. This book is the first to meld cross-time with cross-country comparisons, link macro structures to micro behavior, and connect class with gender dynamics to yield fresh insights into where we are on the road to gender equality, why it varies across industrialized countries, and the barriers to further progress. < |
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