Blues Legacies and Black Feminism - by Angela Y Davis (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Davis provides the historical, social, and political contexts with which to reinterpret the performances and lyrics of many famous women blues singers as the articulation of a black, working-class feminist consciousness at odds with mainstream American culture.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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. Angela Davis provides the historical, social, and political contexts with which to reinterpret the performances and lyrics of Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday as powerful articulations of an alternative consciousness profoundly at odds with mainstream American culture. <p/>The works of Rainey, Smith, and Holiday have been largely misunderstood by critics. Overlooked, Davis shows, has been the way their candor and bravado laid the groundwork for an aesthetic that allowed for the celebration of social, moral, and sexual values outside the constraints imposed by middle-class respectability. Through meticulous transcriptions of all the extant lyrics of Rainey and Smith--published here in their entirety for the first time--Davis demonstrates how the roots of the blues extend beyond a musical tradition to serve as a conciousness-raising vehicle for American social memory. A stunning, indispensable contribution to American history, as boldly insightful as the women Davis praises, <i>Blues Legacies and Black Feminism</i> is a triumph.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Angela Y. Davis</b> is a political activist, scholar, author, and speaker. She is an outspoken advocate for the oppressed and exploited, writing on Black liberation, prison abolition, the intersections of race, gender, and class, and international solidarity with Palestine. She is the author of several books, including <i>Women, Race, and Class</i> and <i>Are Prisons Obsolete?</i> She is the subject of the acclaimed documentary <i>Free Angela and All Political Prisoners</i> and is distinguished professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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