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The Original Blues
University Press of Mississippi (Verlag)
978-1-4968-1002-1 (ISBN)
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The first blues star of black vaudeville was Butler ""String Beans"" May, a blackface comedian, pianist, singer, and dancer from Montgomery, Alabama. Before his senseless death in 1917, he was recognized as the ""blues master piano player of the world."" His legacy, elusive and previously unacknowledged, is preserved in the repertoire of country blues singer-guitarists and pianists of the Race recording era.
While male blues singers remained tethered to the role of blackface comedian, female ""coon shouters"" acquired a more dignified aura in the emergent persona of the ""blues queen."" Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and most of their contemporaries came through this portal; while others, including forgotten blues heroine Ora Criswell and her protégé Trixie Smith, reconfigured the use of blackface for their own subversive purposes.
In 1921 black vaudeville was effectively nationalized by the Theater Owners Booking Association (T.O.B.A.). In collusion with the emergent Race recording industry, T.O.B.A. theaters featured touring companies headed by blues queens with records to sell. While the 1920s was the most celebrated and remunerative period of vaudeville blues, the previous decade was arguably the most creative, having witnessed the emergence, popularization, and early development of the original blues in southern theaters.
Lynn Abbott, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA works at the Hogan Jazz Archive, Tulane University. He is the coauthor (with Doug Seroff) of Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889-1895; Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, ""Coon Songs,"" and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz; and To Do This, You Must Know How: Music Pedagogy in the Black Gospel Quartet Tradition, all published by University Press of Mississippi. Doug Seroff, Greenbrier, Tennessee, USA is an independent scholar. He is the coauthor (with Lynn Abbott) of Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889-1895; Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, ""Coon Songs,"" and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz; and To Do This, You Must Know How: Music Pedagogy in the Black Gospel Quartet Tradition, all published by University Press of Mississippi.
Erscheinungsdatum | 01.03.2017 |
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Reihe/Serie | American Made Music Series |
Verlagsort | Jackson |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 203 x 254 mm |
Gewicht | 1208 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4968-1002-3 / 1496810023 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4968-1002-1 / 9781496810021 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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