{"product_id":"blues-legacies-and-black-feminism-isbn-9780679771265","title":"Blues Legacies and Black Feminism","description":"From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial black women blues singers through a feminist lens. Angela Davis provides the historical, social, and political contexts with which to reinterpret the performances and lyrics of Gertrude \"Ma\" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday as powerful articulations of an alternative consciousness profoundly at odds with mainstream American culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe works of Rainey, Smith, and Holiday have been largely misunderstood by critics. Overlooked, Davis shows, has been the way their candor and bravado laid the groundwork for an aesthetic that allowed for the celebration of social, moral, and sexual values outside the constraints imposed by middle-class respectability. Through meticulous transcriptions of all the extant lyrics of Rainey and Smith—published here in their entirety for the first time—Davis demonstrates how the roots of the blues extend beyond a musical tradition to serve as a conciousness-raising vehicle for American social memory. A stunning, indispensable contribution to American history, as boldly insightful as the women Davis praises, \u003ci\u003eBlues Legacies and Black Feminism\u003c\/i\u003e is a triumph.I.  I Used to Be Your Sweet Mama:  Ideology, Sexuality and Domesticity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eII.  Blame It On the Blues:  Bessie Smith, “Ma” Rainey and the Politics of Blues Protest\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII.  Mama’s Got The Blues:  Rivals, Girlfriends and Advisors\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIV.  Here Come My Train:  Traveling Themes in Ma Rainey’s Blues\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eV.  Preaching the Blues:  Spirituality and Self-Consciousness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVI.  Up In Harlem Every Saturday Night:  Blues and the Black Aesthetic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVII.  When A Woman Loves A Man:  Social Implications of Billie Holiday’s Love Songs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVIII.  Strange Fruit:  Music and Social Consciousness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLyrics to Songs Recorded by Gertrude “Ma” Rainey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLyrics to Songs Recorded by Bessie Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWorks Consulted\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePermissions Acknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eAngela Y. Davis\u003c\/b\u003e is a political activist, scholar, author, and speaker. She is an outspoken advocate for the oppressed and exploited, writing on Black liberation, prison abolition, the intersections of race, gender, and class, and international solidarity with Palestine. She is the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eWomen, Race, and Class\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAre Prisons Obsolete?\u003c\/i\u003e She is the subject of the acclaimed documentary \u003ci\u003eFree Angela and All Political Prisoners\u003c\/i\u003e and is distinguished professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304254918885,"sku":"NP9780679771265","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679771265.jpg?v=1767722859","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/blues-legacies-and-black-feminism-isbn-9780679771265","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}