ISBN: 9780252075452

As one of the first African American vocalists to be recorded, Bessie Smith is a prominent figure in American popular culture and African American history. Michelle R. Scott uses Smith's … Plus…

As one of the first African American vocalists to be recorded, Bessie Smith is a prominent figure in American popular culture and African American history. Michelle R. Scott uses Smith's life as a lens to investigate broad issues in history, including industrialization, Southern rural to urban migration, black community development in the post-emancipation era, and black working-class gender conventions. Arguing that the rise of blues culture and the success of female blues artists like Bessie Smith are connected to the rapid migration and industrialization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Scott focuses her analysis on Chattanooga, Tennessee, the large industrial and transportation center where Smith was born. This study explores how the expansion of the Southern railroads and the development of iron foundries, steel mills, and sawmills created vast employment opportunities in the postbellum era. Chronicling the growth and development of the African American Chattanooga community, Scott examines the Smith family's migration to Chattanooga and the popular music of black Chattanooga during the first decade of the twentieth century, and culminates by delving into Smith's early years on the vaudeville circuit. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Social Sciences>African Amer Studies>African Amer Studies, University of Illinois Press Core >1<

2008, ISBN: 0252075455

[EAN: 9780252075452], Neubuch, [PU: University of Illinois Press], The cultural and industrial reconstruction of the South, explored through a major figure in early black music Num Pages:… Plus…

[EAN: 9780252075452], Neubuch, [PU: University of Illinois Press], The cultural and industrial reconstruction of the South, explored through a major figure in early black music Num Pages: 216 pages, 15 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGK; GTB; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363. . 2008. Illustrated. Paperback. . . . ., Books<

2008, ISBN: 9780252075452

Trade paperback, New., Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 216 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white., Urbana-Champaign, IL, [PU: University of Illinois Press]