The Blues Muse: Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry - Brossura

Rutter, Emily Ruth

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ISBN 10: 081735994X ISBN 13: 9780817359942

Casa editrice: Univ of Alabama Pr, 2020

Riassunto

A critical analysis of the poetic representations and legacies of five landmark blues artists

The Blues Muse: Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry focuses on five key blues musicians and singers―Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Robert Johnson, and Lead Belly―and traces the ways in which these artists and their personas have been invoked and developed throughout American poetry. This study spans nearly one hundred years of literary and musical history, from the New Negro Renaissance to the present.

Emily Ruth Rutter not only examines blues musicians as literary touchstones or poetic devices, but also investigates the relationship between poetic constructions of blues icons and shifting discourses of race and gender. Rutter’s nuanced analysis is clear, compelling, and rich in critical assessments of these writers’ portraits of the musical artists, attending to their strategies and oversights.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Alabama Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 081735994X
• ISBN 13: 9780817359942
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 228
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile