Big star fallin' mama
Subtitle: five women in Black music.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Viking Press
Published: 1974
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
Subjects: African American women musicians -- Juvenile literature.; Blues (Music) -- Juvenile literature.; Musicians.; African Americans -- Biography.; Blues (Music)
Description: Portraits of five black women and the kind of music they sang during a period of social change. Includes Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Mahalia Jackson, Billie Holiday, and Aretha Franklin.
Notes: Discography: p. [139]-140.
Bibliography: p. [137]-138.