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Author McGinley, Paige A., author.

Title Staging the blues : from tent shows to tourism / Paige A. McGinley
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2014

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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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Subject Blues (Music) -- History and criticism
Performance practice (Music) -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Blues.
Blues (Music)
Performance practice (Music)
Southern States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822376316
0822376318