Bessie

Bessie
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 334
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ISBN-10 : 9780300107562
ISBN-13 : 0300107560
Rating : 4/5 (560 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Bessie by : Chris Albertson

Download or read book Bessie written by Chris Albertson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered by many to be the greatest blues singer of all time, Bessie Smith was also a successful vaudeville entertainer who became the highest paid African-American performer of the roaring twenties. This book--a revised and expanded edition of the classic biography of this extraordinary artist--debunks many of the myths that have circulated since her untimely death in 1937. Chris Albertson writes with insight and candor about the singer's personal life and her career, supplementing his historical research with dozens of interviews with her relatives, friends, and associates, in particular Ruby Walker Smith, a niece by marriage who toured with Bessie for over a decade. For this new edition he includes more details of Bessie's early years, new interview material, and a chapter devoted to events and responses that followed the original publication in 1971.


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