Blues empress in black Chattanooga
Subtitle: Bessie Smith and the emerging urban South
By: Michelle R. Scott.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780252033384; 9780252075452
Subjects: Smith, Bessie, -- 1894-1937; Singers -- United States -- Biography; Blues (Music) -- Tennessee -- Chattanooga -- History and criticism; African Americans -- Tennessee -- Chattanooga -- History; Chattanooga (Tenn.) -- History
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : uncovering the life of a blues woman; title: Beyond the contraband camps : black Chattanooga from the Civil War to 1880; title: "The freest town on the map" : black migration to new south Chattanooga; title: The empress's playground : Bessie Smith and black childhood in the urban South; title: Life on "Big Ninth" Street : the emerging blues culture in Chattanooga; title: An empress in vaudeville : Bessie Smith on the theater circuit.