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Ma Rainey's black bottom a play in two acts /

Presents the script for a two-act play set in a Chicago recording studio in 1927 where African-American band members and blues singer Ma Rainey reveal the conflicted feelings they have about their status in the white man's world.

Main Author: Wilson, August.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Plume, [1985]
Physical Description: 111 pages ; 21 cm.
Subjects:
Rainey, Ma, -- 1886-1939 -- Drama.
Blues musicians -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Drama.
African American women singers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Drama.
Sound -- Recording and reproducing -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Drama.
Sound studios -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Drama.
Sound recording industry -- United States -- Drama.
Nineteen twenties -- Drama.
United States -- Race relations -- Drama.

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