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Bessie.(Book Review)
Bessie. By Chris Albertson. Rev. and expanded ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. [xix, 314 p. ISBN 0-300-09902-9. $29.95.] Illustrations, bibliography, discography, index.
Readers familiar with Chris Albertson's Bessie, which had been out of print for several years, will be delighted to learn that this landmark biography is now available in a revised and expanded edition from Yale University Press. Bessie examines the life and music of Bessie Smith, the most famous blues singer of the 1920s, and arguably the most successful and influential African American artist of the decade as well. Her influence, of course, extends well beyond the 1920s, for Billie ...
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