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Author Scott, Michelle R., 1974-

Title Blues empress in black Chattanooga : Bessie Smith and the emerging urban South / Michelle R. Scott
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2008]
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Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [173]-191) and index
Notes English
Description based on print version record
Subject Smith, Bessie, 1894-1937.
SUBJECT Smith, Bessie, 1894-1937 fast
Smith, Bessie. swd
Subject Singers -- United States -- Biography
Blues (Music) -- Tennessee -- Chattanooga -- History and criticism
African Americans -- Tennessee -- Chattanooga -- History
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Composers & Musicians.
MUSIC -- Printed Music -- General.
African Americans
Blues (Music)
Singers
SUBJECT Chattanooga (Tenn.) -- History
Subject Tennessee -- Chattanooga
United States
Tennessee
Genre/Form Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019718625
ISBN 9780252092374
0252092376
1283583151
9781283583152
9786613895608
6613895601