Bessie

Known as the "Empress of the Blues," Bessie Smith was a successful vaudeville entertainer who became the highest paid African American performer of the Roaring Twenties. This revised and expanded biography debunks many of the myths that have circulated since her untimely death in 1937. Wri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Albertson, Chris
Format: EBOOK
Other Format: EAUDIO
Language:ENGLISH
Published: Yale University Press 2003
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