ISBN:
9780252033384
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9780252075452 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Language:
English
Pages:
XIII, 198 S.
DDC:
782.421643092
Keywords:
Smith, Bessie / 1894-1937
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Smith, Bessie 〈1894-1937〉
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Smith, Bessie
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Geschichte 1860-1940
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Geschichte
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Singers / United States / Biography
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Blues (Music) / Tennessee / Chattanooga / History and criticism
;
African Americans / Tennessee / Chattanooga / History
;
Geschichte
;
Schwarze. USA
;
African Americans History
;
Blues (Music) History and criticism
;
Singers Biography
;
Schwarze
;
Blues
;
Chattanooga (Tenn.) / History
;
USA
;
Chattanooga (Tenn.) History
;
Chattanooga, Tenn.
;
Biografie
;
Biografie
;
Biografie
;
Biografie
;
Smith, Bessie 1894-1937
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Chattanooga, Tenn.
;
Chattanooga, Tenn.
;
Blues
;
Geschichte
;
Chattanooga, Tenn.
;
Schwarze
;
Geschichte 1860-1940
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) 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
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=30989
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