Title Blues empress in black Chattanooga : Bessie Smith and the emerging urban South / Michelle R. Scott.

Publication Info.	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2008]
	©2008

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Description	1 online resource (xiii, 198 pages) : illustrations
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.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Smith, Bessie, 1894-1937.
	Smith, Bessie, 1894-1937. (OCoLC)fst00113246
	Smith, Bessie.
	Singers -- United States -- Biography.
	Blues (Music) -- Tennessee -- Chattanooga -- History and criticism.
	African Americans -- Tennessee -- Chattanooga -- History.
	Chattanooga (Tenn.) -- History.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Composers & Musicians.
	MUSIC -- Printed Music -- General.
	African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
	Blues (Music) (OCoLC)fst00835056
	Singers. (OCoLC)fst01119301
	Tennessee -- Chattanooga. (OCoLC)fst01205713
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Tennessee.
Genre/Form	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
	Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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 bk.)
	0252092376 (electronic bk.)

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