Introduction: Beale on broadway -- Real personality: the blues actress -- Theater folk: Huddie ledbetter on the stage -- Southern exposure: transatlantic blues -- Highway 61 revisited: blues tourism at ground zero.
Introduction: Beale on broadway -- Real personality: the blues actress -- Theater folk: Huddie ledbetter on the stage -- Southern exposure: transatlantic blues -- Highway 61 revisited: blues tourism at ground zero.
Introduction: Beale on broadway -- Real personality: the blues actress -- Theater folk: Huddie ledbetter on the stage -- Southern exposure: transatlantic blues -- Highway 61 revisited: blues tourism at ground zero.
<Div>Singing was just one element of blues performance in the early twentieth century. Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and other classic blues singers also tapped, joked, and flaunted extravagant costumes on tent show and black vaudeville stages. Even though folklorists, record produce…
Singing was just one element of blues performance in the early twentieth century. Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and other classic blues singers also tapped, joked, and flaunted extravagant costumes on tent show and black vaudeville stages. The press even described these women as "act…