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Bessie Smith
Jackie Kay

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Bessie Smith

Absolute Press (Jun 1997)
1899791701
| Paperback
96 pages | 147 x 190 mm | English
€ 8.00 | Value: € 3.14
Dewey 782.421643/092
LC Classification ML420.S667 .K39 1997
LC Control No. 98148593

Genre

  • Biography

Subject

  • Biography & Autobiography / Composers & Musicians
  • Blues (Music)
  • Singers
  • Singers/ United States/ Biography
  • Women Singers

Plot

Bessie Smith was certainly the greatest blues singer who lived and probably one of the greatest and most influential singers of the twentieth century. Her blues songs mirrored her tempestuous life as she travelled across America performing and making records, taking both male and female lovers, achieving great wealth and stardom until her eventual decline during the years of the depression. She died in a car crash in 1937 aged 43.