Title The blues muse : race, gender, and musical celebrity in American poetry / Emily Ruth Rutter

Published Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2018] ©2018

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Description 1 online resource Contents Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Blues Muse Tradition; 1. ""Don't Like My Ocean, Don t'Fish in My Sea"": Blues Muses, Racial Uplift, and Queer Camaraderie; 2. ""Never Was a White Man Had the Blues"": Blues Icons and Black Power; 3. ""I Ain't Gonna Marry, Ain't Gon' Settle Down"": Blues Women and Intersectionality; 4. ""Blues Falling Down Like Hail"": Blues Men and the Second-Wave Blues Revival; 5. ""It's Gonna Carry Me through This World"": The Post-Soul Blues Muse; Coda. Repetition with a Difference: Beyonce Knowles-Carter as Muse; Notes; Bibliography; Index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 26, 2018) Subject American poetry -- African American authors -- History and criticism Blues musicians -- United States Blues (Music) in literature. Music and literature. American poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry. American poetry -- African American authors American poetry -- Women authors Blues (Music) in literature Blues musicians Music and literature United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780817391973 0817391975

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