Description |
1 online resource (ix, 286 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Introduction: Beale on broadway -- Real personality : the blues actress -- Theater folk : Huddie ledbetter on the stage -- Southern exposure : transatlantic blues -- Highway 61 revisited : blues tourism at ground zero |
Summary |
Singing was just one element of blues performance in the early twentieth century. Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and other classic blues singers also tapped, joked, and flaunted extravagant costumes on tent show and black vaudeville stages. Even though folklorists, record producers, and festival promoters downplayed the theatricality of early blues in favor of notions of authenticity, virtuoso blues artists used dance, comedy, costume, and other theatrical conventions to great effect throughout the twentieth century |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Blues (Music) -- History and criticism
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Performance practice (Music) -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Blues.
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Blues (Music)
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Performance practice (Music)
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Southern States
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780822376316 |
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0822376318 |
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