The Blues Muse: Race, Gender, And Musical Celebrity In American Poetry

Focuses on five key blues musicians and singers - Gertrude ""Ma"" Rainey, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Robert Johnson, and Lead Belly - and traces the ways in which these artists and their personas have been invoked and developed throughout American poetry.

• | By (Author): Emily Ruth Rutter
• | Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 02, 2020
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 228 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Softback
• | ISBN-10: 081735994X
• | ISBN-13: 9780817359942