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A Bad Woman Feeling Good: Blues and the Women Who Sing Them
by
Buzzy Jackson (Goodreads Author)
An exciting lineage of women singers—originating with Ma Rainey and her protégée Bessie Smith—shaped the blues, launching it as a powerful, expressive vehicle of emotional liberation. Along with their successors Billie Holiday, Etta James, Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, and Janis Joplin, they injected a dose of reality into the often trivial world of pop...more
Hardcover, 336 pages
Published
February 17th 2005
by W. W. Norton & Company
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The subtitle of this book is "Blues and the Women Who Sing Them." I think a better subtitle woudl be "The Influence of the Blues on American Women's Music." The focus is not so much on the blues form as it is on the emotional content of the music. Jackson treats a long line of singers from various backgrounds as a sort of genealogy of "blueswomen," each inheriting a legacy of attitude and style from her predecessors: Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Etta James, Aretha Franklin, Tina Turn...more
A nice overview, making more sense at the beginning. It is what it is: a dissertation that got published. And I'd love to know what the author's real name is . . .
No new information is contained in these pages. Also, by focusing on only a handful of Blues Women, this author leaves A LOT out. Feels incomplete.
Starts off all right, but really falls apart at the end. The women she chooses to cover at first make sense, then seem more and more arbitrarily chosen. Not reccomended for anyone with a working knowledge of female blues singers.
A very interesting book with some great history about blues and jazz. Kind of loses it at the end with some of the musician choices, but still, very cool read.
Looked really good at first...but it read like a poorly written dissertation...
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Buzzy Jackson grew up in the American West, moving between Truckee, California and Montana. She eventually headed for sea level, living in Perth, Australia, Los Angeles, Barcelona, New York City, and the San Francisco Bay Area, where she earned a Ph.D. in History at UC Berkeley.
Her work experience includes stints as a radio DJ, tennis hostess, NATO Headquarters tour guide, NBC Sports gopher, and c...more
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