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1 online resource (xiii, 198 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-191) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: uncovering the life of a blues woman -- Beyond the contraband camps: Black Chattanooga from the Civil War to 1880 -- The freest town on the map: Black migration to new south Chattanooga -- The empress's playground: Bessie Smith and Black childhood in the urban South -- Life on Big Ninth Street: the emerging blues culture in Chattanooga -- An empress in vaudeville: Bessie Smith on the theater circuit. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Smith, Bessie, 1894-1937.
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Smith, Bessie, 1894-1937. |
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Smith, Bessie, 1894-1937. |
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Smith, Bessie. |
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Singers -- United States -- Biography.
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Singers. |
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United States. |
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Biographies.
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Blues (Music) -- Tennessee -- Chattanooga -- History and criticism.
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Blues (Music) |
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Tennessee -- Chattanooga. |
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African Americans -- Tennessee -- Chattanooga -- History.
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African Americans. |
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History. |
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Chattanooga (Tenn.) -- History.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Scott, Michelle R., 1974- Blues empress in black Chattanooga. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2007052615 (OCoLC)177019548 |
| ISBN |
9780252092374 (electronic book) |
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0252092376 (electronic book) |
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9780252033384 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0252033388 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780252075452 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0252075455 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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