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Author Bratcher, Melanie E

Title Words and Songs of Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, and Nina Simone : Sound Motion, Blues Spirit, and African Memory
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (279 pages)
Series Studies in African American History and Culture
Studies in African American history and culture.
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Preface Personal Journey; Acknowledgments; Chapter One Introduction; Chapter Two Catching the Blues Spirit; Chapter Three Musing African Memory; Chapter Four Three Women; Chapter Five Sound Motion and Spirit; Chapter Six Summary and Conclusion; Appendix One Discography; Appendix Two Life Profile Matrix; Appendix Three Life Profile Matrix: Analytic Categories Quantified per Singer; Appendix Four Life Profile Matrix: Analytical Categories Thematically Qualified; Appendix Five Life Profile/Song Matrices
Summary This book explores the relationship between three African American women's dance-art-music sensibilities within the context of a Pan African aesthetic
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Subject African American women signers
African Americans.
Afrocentrism.
Blues (Music)
Performance practice (Music)
Singing.
Smith, Bessie
Arts.
African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism.
Holiday, Billie, -- 1915-1959 -- Criticism and interpretation
Simone, Nina, -- 1933-2003 -- Criticism and interpretation
Smith, Bessie, -- 1894-1937 -- Criticism and interpretation
Black or African American
African American.
chants.
African Americans
African Americans -- Music
Afrocentrism
Arts
Blues (Music)
Performance practice (Music)
Singing
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203942024
0203942027
128106405X
9781281064059