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Staging the blues : from tent shows to tourism, Paige A. McGinley
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- Summary
- Singing was just one element of blues performance in the early twentieth century. Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and other classic blues singers also tapped, joked, and flaunted extravagant costumes on tent show and black vaudeville stages. The press even described these women as "actresses" long before they achieved worldwide fame for their musical recordings. In "Staging the Blues," Paige A. McGinley shows that even though folklorists, record producers, and festival promoters set the theatricality of early blues aside in favor of notions of authenticity, it remained creatively vibrant throughout the twentieth century. Highlighting performances by Rainey, Smith, Lead Belly, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Sonny Terry, and Brownie McGhee in small Mississippi towns, Harlem theaters, and the industrial British North, this pioneering study foregrounds virtuoso blues artists who used the conventions of the theater, including dance, comedy, and costume, to stage black mobility, to challenge narratives of racial authenticity, and to fight for racial and economic justice
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- ix, 286 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction: Beale on Broadway
- Real personality: the blues actress
- Theater folk: Huddie Ledbetter on the stage
- Southern exposure: transatlantic blues
- Highway 61 revisited: blues tourism at ground zero
- Isbn
- 9780822357452
- Label
- Staging the blues : from tent shows to tourism
- Title
- Staging the blues
- Title remainder
- from tent shows to tourism
- Statement of responsibility
- Paige A. McGinley
- Subject
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- trueAfrican American women
- trueAfrican Americans -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Blues (Music)
- trueBlues (Music)
- trueBlues (Music) -- History and criticism
- trueBlues musicians
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- History
- 1900 - 1999
- Performance practice (Music)
- Performance practice (Music) -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
- trueSingers
- Southern States
- trueVaudeville
- trueWomen blues musicians -- United States
- trueMusic -- Performance
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Singing was just one element of blues performance in the early twentieth century. Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and other classic blues singers also tapped, joked, and flaunted extravagant costumes on tent show and black vaudeville stages. The press even described these women as "actresses" long before they achieved worldwide fame for their musical recordings. In "Staging the Blues," Paige A. McGinley shows that even though folklorists, record producers, and festival promoters set the theatricality of early blues aside in favor of notions of authenticity, it remained creatively vibrant throughout the twentieth century. Highlighting performances by Rainey, Smith, Lead Belly, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Sonny Terry, and Brownie McGhee in small Mississippi towns, Harlem theaters, and the industrial British North, this pioneering study foregrounds virtuoso blues artists who used the conventions of the theater, including dance, comedy, and costume, to stage black mobility, to challenge narratives of racial authenticity, and to fight for racial and economic justice
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- 10381441
- Cataloging source
- NcD/DLC
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- McGinley, Paige A
- Dewey number
- 781.64309
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- portraits
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- ML3521
- LC item number
- .M33 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Blues (Music)
- Performance practice (Music)
- Blues (Music)
- Performance practice (Music)
- Southern States
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- from tent shows to tourism
- Label
- Staging the blues : from tent shows to tourism, Paige A. McGinley
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: Beale on Broadway -- Real personality: the blues actress -- Theater folk: Huddie Ledbetter on the stage -- Southern exposure: transatlantic blues -- Highway 61 revisited: blues tourism at ground zero
- Control code
- 1055391
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- ix, 286 pages
- Isbn
- 9780822357452
- Isbn Type
- (pbk : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2014006956
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780822357452
- (OCoLC)872382650
- Label
- Staging the blues : from tent shows to tourism, Paige A. McGinley
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: Beale on Broadway -- Real personality: the blues actress -- Theater folk: Huddie Ledbetter on the stage -- Southern exposure: transatlantic blues -- Highway 61 revisited: blues tourism at ground zero
- Control code
- 1055391
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- ix, 286 pages
- Isbn
- 9780822357452
- Isbn Type
- (pbk : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2014006956
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780822357452
- (OCoLC)872382650
Subject
- trueAfrican American women
- trueAfrican Americans -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Blues (Music)
- trueBlues (Music)
- trueBlues (Music) -- History and criticism
- trueBlues musicians
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- History
- 1900 - 1999
- Performance practice (Music)
- Performance practice (Music) -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
- trueSingers
- Southern States
- trueVaudeville
- trueWomen blues musicians -- United States
- trueMusic -- Performance
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