Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga - Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South

Informationen zum Autor UMBC Klappentext As one of the first African American vocalists to be recorded, Bessie Smith is a prominent figure in American popular culture and African American history. Michelle R. Scott uses Smith's life as a lens to investigate broad issues in history, including industrialization, Southern rural to urban migration, black community development in the post-emancipation era, and black working-class gender conventions. Arguing that the rise of blues culture and the success of female blues artists like Bessie Smith are connected to the rapid migration and industrialization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Scott focuses her analysis on Chattanooga, Tennessee, the large industrial and transportation center where Smith was born. Scott explores how the expansion of the Southern railroads and the development of iron foundries, steel mills, and sawmills created vast employment opportunities in the postbellum era, contributing to Chattanooga's African American communityand an emergent blues culture. Zusammenfassung The cultural and industrial reconstruction of the South! explored through a major figure in early black music

Product details

• Authors: Michelle Scott, Michelle R. Scott
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.08.2008
• EAN: 9780252075452
• ISBN: 978-0-252-07545-2
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)