Queer Blues : The Hidden Figures of Early Blues Music - A Guardian Best Book of 2023

Name: Queer Blues
Brand: Omnibus Press
SKU: 9781913172527
Price: 3650 KES
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ISBN: 9781913172527

by Darryl W Bullock

Book Details

Format Hardback

ISBN-10 191317252X

ISBN-13 9781913172527

Publisher Omnibus Press

Imprint Omnibus Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jul 6th, 2023

Print length 368 Pages

Weight 762 grams

Dimensions 16.50 x 24.10 x 3.60 cms

Product Classification: Jazz Blues Popular music Popular music

KSh 3,650.00

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A long-overdue look at the history of LGBTQ communities within early blues, jazz, and soul music. Considers musicians including Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Josephine Baker.

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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