Bessie: Revised and expanded edition

✍ Scribed by Chris Albertson

Publisher: Yale University Press
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 334
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Considered by many to be the greatest blues singer of all time, Bessie Smith was also a successful vaudeville entertainer who became the highest paid African-American performer of the roaring twenties. This booka revised and expanded edition of the classic biography of this extraordinary artistdebunks many of the myths that have circulated since her untimely death in 1937.

Chris Albertson writes with insight and candor about the singer’s personal life and her career, supplementing his historical research with dozens of interviews with her relatives, friends, and associates, in particular Ruby Walker Smith, a niece by marriage who toured with Bessie for over a decade. For this new edition he includes more details of Bessie’s early years, new interview material, and a chapter devoted to events and responses that followed the original publication in 1971.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Author’s Note
Acknowledgments
Bessie
Epilogue
Notes
Suggested Reading
Index

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