Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday the smiths Jon Fine spent nearly thirty

Jon Fine spent nearly thirty years performing and recording with bands that played various forms of aggressive and challenging underground rock music

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he has learned that being an artist isn’t about your specific output

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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday the smiths Jon Fine spent nearly thirtyAuthor: Angela Y. Davis 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