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Author Jones, Hettie.

Title Big star fallin' mama; five women in Black music.

Publication Info. New York : Viking Press, [1974]

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  ML82 .J65    Available  ---
Edition [1st ed.]
Description 150 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
age Children
Summary Portraits of five black women and the kind of music they sang during a period of social change. Includes Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Mahalia Jackson, Billie Holiday, and Aretha Franklin.
Bibliography Discography: pages 139-140.
Bibliography: pages 137-138.
Subject African American women musicians -- Juvenile literature.
African American women musicians.
Blues (Music) -- Juvenile literature.
Blues (Music)
Genre/Form Biographies.
Biographies.
ISBN 0670164089 $5.95