Emily Ruth Rutter

Broschiertes Buch

The Blues Muse

Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Emily Ruth Rutter is assistant professor of English at Ball State University. She is the author of Invisible Ball of Dreams: Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line.Her research has been published in African American Review, South Atlantic Review, Studies in American Culture, Aethlon, and MELUS.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: The University of Alabama Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 356g
• ISBN-13: 9780817359942
• ISBN-10: 081735994X
• Artikelnr.: 58453357