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The female blues singers of the 1920s, Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, and Bessie Smith, not only invented a musical genre, but they also became models of how African American women could become economically independent in a culture that had not previously allowed it. Both Smith and Rainey composed, arranged, and managed their own road bands. Angela Y. Davis's study emphasizes the impact that these singers, and later Billie Holiday, had on the poor and working-class communities from which they came. The artists addressed radical subjects such as physical and economic abuse, race relations, and female sexual power, including lesbianism. Ma Rainey was well known as a lover of women as well as men, and her song "Prove It on Me" describes a butch woman who dresses like a man and dates women. Blues Legacies and Black Feminism places the fluid sexuality of these women within a larger context of African American artists' attempts to subvert and recreate America.
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Davis, a fiery black militant in the sixties, a professor of History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, today, sets out to reinterpret the meaning and achievements of black women blues singers in this analysis of the work of Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Lady Day. From her feminist stance, Davis has produced a scholarly essay that makes some convincing assertions about the effects of the singers' music on the black middle class and on U.S. culture generally. In arguing a different understanding of their work, Davis uses the ideas of social commentators such as Carl Van Vechten and Herbert Marcuse, jazz critics such as Leonard Feather, and feminist writers such as Cheryl Wall and Daphne Duval Harrison. Unfortunately, Davis' in-your-face feminism will annoy some readers. Nevertheless, her argument is well stated; moreover, Davis has transcribed, and included with the end matter, the lyrics to all of Ma Rainey's and Bessie Smith's songs, and that alone justifies the price of the book. Bonnie Smothers
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I have to agree with the reviewer from Turkey who wrote positively about Davis' "Strange Fruit" chapter in Blues Legacies. I recently wrote a term paper on the song Strange Fruit in which I referred to both David Margolick's recent release about Strange Fruit and Davis' Blues Legacies. I was very impressed with Davis' depiction of Holiday as an individual and an entertainer. It seemed that she brought a more well-rounded and objective perspective on the singer into the world of Billie Holiday biographies. Her take on the song and on Holiday's connection to it are, shall we say, refreshing, in that it takes a novel approach to the singer -- one that attempts to remain impartial to the popular image of Holiday. This book is also an excellent reference for those studying feminism, jazz, Afro-Americana and/or the lives of the three women (Rainey, Holiday and Smith) showcased in Davis' Blues Legacies.
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If you expect to read a traditional biography you may be dissappointed. The lives of the blues women and their political messages behind their songs are discussed in one another's light. This works very well as blues is a folk music which tells many things about the black experience and most singers are song writers themselves. The section about Billie Holiday and her song Strange Fruit is one of the rare approaches to Lady Day as an artist who gave a very important political messages about racism. In other biographies Billie Holiday is always portrayed as a victim rather than a person who had an important political message. I believe this very style of her portrayal could be discussed in a feminist context and that's what Angela Davies did in this book with her vast knowledge and experience in black politics and gender issues. Some people criticize the book for being overtly political. However, I see no other way of analyzing the blues without its political context. The transcriptions of the songs also gives a documentary value to this book. It has been a great reference for my research in this field. I wish I can get in touch with Angela Davies one day and discuss her about the research she has done while preparing this book.
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Davis' title explains her project in clear terms at the outset. She is not engaged in a critique of modern women in popular music (as one reviewer anticipated). Nor is she profiling these women in biography format. Therefore, she does not need the permission of Rainey's relatives for this project. Her goal is to uncover the pre-feminist sentiments expressed in these women's music. In that regard, she needs only the barest biographical information (that women performers were not rooted to hearth and home, traveled, worked, and had marquee positions). Assuming this general information to be true of all these women, Davis then concentrates her primary energy on the legacy that blues lyrics leave for Black Feminism. Part of that legacy is found in the advice on romance, religion, and race that these women's songs shared (or share now) with black female listeners. I hope this gives readers an accurate idea of what to expect from this worthwhile book and encourages disappointed readers to re-encounter the book on its own terms.
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I am a resident of Columbus, Georgia, the birthplace and hometown where Ma' Rainey was raised and died. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 12. Februar 2000 veröffentlicht
Little dissapointed...
As I love music of Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith & Billie Holiday,this book didnt open new ground for me at all. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 10. Dezember 1999 von Sasha
ultimate analysis of smith & rainey
I definitely agree with "mpgrier" who writes that Davis' book is almost flawless in its discussion of Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 14. September 1999 veröffentlicht
Overstated politics keep book from acheiving its potential
Somewhere in "Blues Legacies," Angela Davis the Activist and Angela Davis the Scholar collided leaving both worse for wear. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 31. Dezember 1998 veröffentlicht
who's afraid of angela davis?
Many of the reviewers have missed the most useful point of Davis's book. When she talks about "proto-feminist consciousness" she means that the lives and music of Ma... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 29. Dezember 1998 von MP Grier
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