Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga : Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South

By (author) Scott, Michelle

As one of the first African American vocalists to be recorded, Bessie Smith is a prominent figure in American popular culture and African American history. Michelle R. Scott uses Smith's life as a lens to investigate broad issues in history, including industrialization, Southern rural to urban migration, black community development in the post-emancipation era, and black working-class gender conventions.Arguing that the rise of blues culture and the success of female blues artists like Bessie Smith are connected to the rapid migration and industrialization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Scott focuses her analysis on Chattanooga, Tennessee, the large industrial and transportation center where Smith was born. Scott explores how the expansion of the Southern railroads and the development of iron foundries, steel mills, and sawmills created vast employment opportunities in the postbellum era, contributing to Chattanooga's African American community and an emergent blues culture.

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書名 Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga : Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South
著作者等 Scott, Michelle
書名別名 Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South
出版元 University of Illinois Press
刊行年月 2008.09.02
ページ数 216p
大きさ H226 x W152
ISBN 9780252075452
言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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