The Blues Muse

Emily Ruth Rutter

The University of Alabama Press, 2018

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A critical analysis of the poetic representations and legacies of five landmark blue artists. The Blues Muse focuses on 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.

ISBN-13
9780817319946
ISBN-10
0817319948
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press
Year
2018
Publication date
2018-10-30
Pages
248
Dimensions
228x152x27
Weight
493