TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scott,Michelle R.
TI  - Blues empress in black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the emerging urban South 
SN  - 9780252092374
AV  - ML420 .B584 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
KW  - Smith, Bessie,
KW  - Singers
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Blues (Music)
KW  - Tennessee
KW  - Chattanooga
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - African Americans
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction: uncovering the life of a blues woman --; Beyond the contraband camps: Black Chattanooga from the Civil War to 1880 --; The freest town on the map: Black migration to new south Chattanooga --; The empress's playground: Bessie Smith and Black childhood in the urban South --; Life on Big Ninth Street: the emerging blues culture in Chattanooga --; An empress in vaudeville: Bessie Smith on the theater circuit; 2; b
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