BLUES LEGACIES AND BLACK FEMINISM: GERTRUDE "MA" RAINEY, BESSIE SMITH, AND BILLIE HOLIDAY History & Theory of Politics In Somebody Scream

In Somebody Scream

The Making of Black Lives Matter presents a condensed and accessible intellectual history that traces the genesis of the ideas that have built into the #BlackLivesMatter movement

By addressing these subjects through the consideration of works produced either by black artists or in response to race-related subjects

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ISBN-13 : 9780061651120

BLUES LEGACIES AND BLACK FEMINISM: GERTRUDE "MA" RAINEY, BESSIE SMITH, AND BILLIE HOLIDAY History & Theory of Politics In Somebody ScreamFrom 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 consciousness profoundly at