Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters: Black Women, Voice, and the Musical Stage

Author/Contributor(s):	Asare, Masi
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	10/22/2024
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Scholar, songwriter, and dramatist Masi Asare explores the singing practice of Black women singers in US musical theatre between 1900 and 1970, showing how singers such as Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, and Lena Horne possessed highly trained voices who fell in a lineage of singers and teachers.