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Item Information   Holdings       More by this author     Kay, Jackie, author.     Subjects     Smith, Bessie, 1894-1937.     Singers -- United States -- Biography.     Blues musicians -- United States -- Biography.     Biography & Autobiography -- Music.     Biography & Autobiography -- Cultural, Ethnic & Regional -- African American & Black.     Biography & Autobiography -- Women.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Kay, Jackie, author.       by title:      Bessie Smith : a poe...         MARC Display

Bessie Smith : a poet's biography of a blues legend / Jackie Kay. by Kay, Jackie, author. New York : Vintage Books, 2021 Description:  xiv, 205 pages ; 21 cm. Edition:  Vintage books original. Contents:  'The red graveyard' -- Introduction -- In the house of the blues -- Chattanooga, 1894 -- In the Ma's footsteps -- The trunk and the no-good man -- Wax -- Ruby on the road -- Tales of the Empress -- The blues -- Mississippi, 1937. Summary:  "Known for her prodigious musical talent, her timeless blues narratives about personal and socioeconomic problems, her tough persona, and her innate ability to enrapture audiences with her raw voice, Bessie Smith--the Empress of the Blues--receives a unique biographical treatment in this special life narrative captured by one of Scotland's finest poets. By masterfully blending research, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and her own experiences in listening to Bessie Smith, Jackie Kay brings Smith to life, chronicling her humble beginnings in Tennessee to her national touring and recording success to her troubled relationships and her tragic end. The result is a lyrical tribute that not only captures Smith's personality but manages to reproduce her voice as her lyrics echo throughout the text. Bessie Smith lives on, and as Kay argues, she is relevant now more than ever"---Provided by publisher. Genre:  Biographies Notes:  "Originally published... in Great Britain by Absolute Press, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Bath, in 1997, and subsequently published reat Britian by Faber & Faber Limited, London, in 2021."--Title page verso.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Peosta Library Circulation Stacks 782.4216 Kay 2021 Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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