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$30.00
Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick & London, 1988, Stated Second printing. A comprehensive and valuable social and musical history of the predominent role that female black blues singers played in shaping the musical heritage and culture of the twenties era. The author goes beyond the two best remembered blues "queens", Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey, to present more than one hundred singers active in the same period, with particular attention to four singers, Sippie Wallace, Alberta Hunter, Edith Wilson and Victoria Spivey. Fine in maroon cloth boards, in a like dust jacket, unclipped, bright, crisp with a touch of shelf wear. J1473
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