Blues Muse

Blues Muse

Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry

Rutter, Emily Ruth

The University of Alabama Press

10/2018

248

Dura

Inglês

9780817319946

15 a 20 dias

A critical analysis of the poetic representations and legacies of five landmark blue artists. The Blues Muse focuses on Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Robert Johnson, and Lead Belly, and traces the ways in which these artists and their personas have been invoked and developed throughout American poetry.
Acknowledgments Introduction: The Blues Muse Tradition 1. "Don't Like My Ocean, Don't Fish in My Sea": Blues Muses, Racial Uplift, and Queer Camaraderie 2. "Never Was a White Man Had the Blues": Blues Icons and Black Power 3. "I Ain't Gonna Marry, Ain't Gonna Settle Down": Blues Women and Intersectionality 4. "Blues Falling Down Like Hail": Blues Men and the Second-Wave Blues Revival 5. "It's Gonna Carry Me through This World": The Post-Soul Blues Muse Coda. Repetition with a Difference: Beyonce Knowles-Carter as Muse Notes Bibliography Index
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