Black pearls : blues queens of the 1920s

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Offers profiles of Alberta Hunter, Edith Wilson, Victoria Spivey, and Sippie Wallace, and looks at the history of the blues, and the vaudeville circuit.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Harrison, Daphne Duval, 1932-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick [N.J.] : Rutgers University Press, [1988]
Subjects:	Blues (Music) > History and criticism. Blues musicians > United States > Biography. African American women musicians > Biography.

Table of Contents:

Riding "Toby" to the big time
"Crazy blues" starts a new craze
"Wild women don't have the blues": blues from the black woman's perspective
"Up the country . . ." and still singing the blues: Sippie Wallce
Blues was her business: Victoria Spivey
"He used to be your man . . ." but he's Edith Wilson's now
She's got a mind to ramble: Alberta Hunter
Other blues singers
Selected blues titles by women
Glossary of colloquialisms
Index of song titles.