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Ma Rainey

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.... Blues 120) In the pun regarding the cats traditionally believed to bring bad luck and the men who also seemed to bring bad luck to her Ma Rainey reflects on a ....
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The Blues as a Musical Genre
.... Classic city blues evolved in the 1920s and 1930s in the singing of Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and others and blues then became as much a style of women ....
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The Italian Sonnet
.... His musical talents were so widely recognized that gospel tunes were called "Dorseys." He played with Gertrude "Ma" Rainey and "Tampa Red" Whitaker, with whom ....
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Miscegenation Law
.... Meyerowitz cites evidence of lesbian communities that had appeared around State and Madison, celebrated by the singer Ma Rainey in encoded lyrics indicative of ....
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Forms of Jazz
.... Gertrude "Ma" Rainey and her Rabbit's Foot Minstrels There were other 'Smiths' with no relation to ....
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