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Author:

Scott, Michelle R., 1974-

Title:

Blues empress in black Chattanooga : Bessie Smith and the emerging urban South / Michelle R. Scott.

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xiii, 198 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Smith, Bessie,--1894-1937.
Singers--United States--Biography.
Blues (Music)--Chattanooga--Chattanooga--History and criticism.
African Americans--Chattanooga--Chattanooga--History.
Chattanooga (Tenn.)--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-191) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: uncovering the life of a blues woman -- Beyond the contraband camps: Black Chattanooga from the Civil War to 1880 -- The freest town on the map: Black migration to new south Chattanooga -- The empress's playground: Bessie Smith and Black childhood in the urban South -- Life on Big Ninth Street: the emerging blues culture in Chattanooga -- An empress in vaudeville: Bessie Smith on the theater circuit.

ISBN:

0252075455 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780252075452 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0252033388 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780252033384 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2007052615

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)