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Item Details
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BESSIE SMITH
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| By: |
Jackie Kay |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£8.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1899791701 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781899791705 |
| Publisher: |
ABSOLUTE PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
7 October, 1997 |
| Series: |
Outlines S. |
| Pages: |
160 |
| Description: |
In the OUT LINES series, a biography of blues singer Bessie Smith which examines her artistic success and personal tragedies, provides information about her lesbian affairs and unhappy marriage and considers how these factors influenced her music. |
| Synopsis: |
Bessie Smith was certainly the greatest blues singer who lived and probably one of the greatest and most influential singers of the twentieth century. Her blues songs mirrored her tempestuous life as she travelled across America performing and making records, taking both male and female lovers, achieving great wealth and stardom until her eventual decline during the years of the depression. She died in a car crash in 1937 aged 43. |
| Illustrations: |
b&w photographs |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Absolute Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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