- Blues (Music), African American women, Feminism and music, History and criticism
From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial black women blues singers through a feminist lens.
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Earnest, grave, character-led and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Angela Y. Davis
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 427
- Publisher
- Vintage, Pantheon Books
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780679450054
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“Like most forms of popular music, African-American blues lyrics talk about love.”
Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American political activist, academic, and author. She emerged as a prominent counterculture activist and radical in the 1960s as a leader of the Communist Party USA, and had close relations with the Black Panther Party through her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. **Source**: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis">Angela Davis</a> on Wikipedia (Wikipedia contributors, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>).
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