Blues legacies and black feminism

From one of this country´s most intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial black women blues singers throught a feminist lens. Angela Davies provides the historical, social and political contexts with which to reinterpret the performances and lyrics of Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday as powrful articulations of an alternative conscousness profoundly at odds with mainstream American culture.