Library of Dance›Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
Angela Y. Davis · Pantheon Books · 1998
Why this source matters
Reads the blues women's lyrics as a record of Black women's sexual and social autonomy — the interpretive frame that slow, close partner dancing and its etiquette actually require.