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All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues. San Francisco, California: Backbeat Books. ISBN 0-87930-736-6. Harrison, Daphne Duval (1990). Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers. ISBN 0-8135-1280-8. Russell, Tony (1997). The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray.
Classic female blues was an early form of blues music, popular in the 1920s. An amalgam of traditional folk blues and urban theater music, the style is also known as vaudeville blues. Classic blues were performed by female singers accompanied by pianists or small jazz ensembles and were the first blues to be recorded.
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Classic female blues [46] Katherine Henderson: 1909 Unknown: Missouri Classic female blues [47] Edna Hicks: 1895 1925 Louisiana Classic female blues [48] Son House: 1902 1988 Mississippi Delta blues [49] Peg Leg Howell: 1888 1966 Georgia Country blues [50] Alberta Hunter: 1895 1984 Tennessee Classic female blues [51] Mississippi John Hurt: 1894 ...
The 1920s blues, known as the classic blues, was a genre largely popularized by African-American women. Singers such as Ma Rainey , Bessie Smith , Alberta Hunter , and Ethel Waters were the most popular. [ 14 ]
Pages in category "African-American women singers" The following 108 pages are in this category, out of 108 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The Nashville-based and South Carolina-born artist's "A Southern Gothic," has taken her critically-acclaimed 2021 blues album, on the road. Adia Victoria, Lizzie No inspire Black female creativity ...
Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an African-American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz Age.Nicknamed the "Empress of the Blues", she was the most popular female blues singer of the 1930s.