Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South

Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South

Scott argues that Smith's music was particularly important to African Americans caught up in the Great Migration: "they turned to blues and gospel music to make sense of the injustices and confusion of city life, and a Bessie Smith performance that bridged the gap between the sacred and th...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of Southern History 2010, Vol.76 (1), p.178-179
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