Queer Blues
eBook - ePub

Queer Blues

The Hidden Figures of Early Blues Music

  1. 368 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Queer Blues

The Hidden Figures of Early Blues Music

About this book

From the very beginning, the blues has had a close connection with the LGBTQ community. There is a long and decorated history of so-called 'dirty blues' songs, stretching back beyond the earliest attempts to capture the blues on record. The 1920s and 30s saw the release of dozens of raunchy, bawdy blues recordings aimed at a knowing LGBTQ audience.Queer Blues tells the story of the pioneering LGBTQ composers and entertainers that wrote, performed and recorded these wonderfully outlandish, life-affirming songs and chronicles, including: Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Josephine Baker to Frankie 'Half-Pint' Jaxon and many more.This is the definitive account of the LGBTQ trailblazers of early blues and a fascinating consideration of the intersection between music and LGBTQ history, from the award-winning Darryl W. Bullock.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. The Songs
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. Leaving the South
  8. 2. Ma Rainey Gets the Blues
  9. 3. The Truth About Ma and Bessie
  10. 4. Alberta, Tony and the Grizzly Bear
  11. 5. Porter Grainger
  12. 6. Ethel Waters and Early Harlem
  13. 7. Clara and Josephine
  14. 8. Bessie Makes a Record
  15. 9. Bessie Gets Married and Britain Gets the Blues
  16. 10. Peachtree Man Blues
  17. 11. In Harlem’s Araby
  18. 12. Million Dollar Blues
  19. 13. Sissies, Freaks, ‘Half-Pint’ and The Hokum Boys
  20. 14. He Just Don’t Appeal to Me
  21. 15. It’s Dirty but Good
  22. 16. Raiding the Pansy Club
  23. 17. B.D. Women and Old Maids
  24. 18. Death Letter Blues
  25. 19. Any Woman’s Blues
  26. Bibliography
  27. Notes
  28. Acknowledgements
  29. About the Author
  30. Copyright