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03475aam a2200409 i 4500 001 90516A40BB4F11EE9799A7D243ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240125010040 008 221122s2023 txu b 000 0beng c 010 $a 2022055982 020 $a 1477321187 020 $a 9781477321188 040 $a TxU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d IMmBT $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a ML420.T467 $b D45 2023 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23/eng/20221123 100 1 $a Denise, LynneÌe $c (DJ), $e author. 245 10 $a Why Willie Mae Thornton matters / $c LynneÌe Denise. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Austin : $b University of Texas Press, $c 2023. 300 $a 207 pages ; $c 21 cm. 490 1 $a Music matters ; $v 012 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-207). 505 0 $a Mothering the blues -- The Black South matters -- Sisters of the dirty blues -- White boy magic and the making of genre -- Grown little girls, tomboy women, and Black radio -- Don't ask me no more about Elvis -- California love/California dreamin' -- Willie Mae inna England -- Your blues ain't like mine -- Mixtapes, white biographers, and Black blues people -- Saved by the Amazing grace of Mahalia Jackson -- A jailed Sassy mama -- The '80s Blackness of Willie Mae's blues -- Epilogue. 520 $a "Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton is best-known for two songs covered by white rock 'n' roll stars (Elvis Presley, "Hound Dog"; Janis Joplin, "Ball 'n' Chain") but she is unquestionably one of the great blueswomen of her generation. She embodies some of the clicheÌs of the blues, too: Born in the South, raised in the church, appropriated by white performers, hard drinking, relatively early death, big nickname, buried in an indigent's grave. LynneÌe Denise's Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters pushes past the stereotype to explore what she means to a young, Black, queer DJ of today who considers her an important musical "ancestor in my line of work." The chapters in this book are thematic, but there's a chronology underlying them that keeps readers oriented. The first chapter, for instance, works with a concept of "mothering," and covers Thornton's upbringing. Subsequent chapters explore how Thornton was shaped by growing up in the Black belt of Alabama, how her discography is evidence of her artistic range, how her touring (and relocating to Houston and Los Angeles) created musical migrations, how her musical collaborators shaped her and how she shaped them, Alice Walker's short story "1955," (which imagines Thornton and Elvis Presley meeting one another), how her success on the chitlin' circuit undermines the perception of that space as anti-queer, her on-stage improvisation as key to her lyricism, her gospel album, and her legacy"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Thornton, Big Mama. 600 10 $a Thornton, Big Mama $x Influence. 650 0 $a Women blues musicians $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a African American women singers $v Biography. 650 0 $a African American women musicians $v Biography. 650 0 $a Blues (Music) $x History and criticism. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Denise, LynneÌe (DJ). $t Why Willie Mae Thornton matters $b First edition. $d Austin : University of Texas Press, 2023 $z 9781477327944 $w (DLC) 2022055983 830 0 $a Music matters. 941 $a 1 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20240125012444.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=90516A40BB4F11EE9799A7D243ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search