Bessie Smith

audiobook (Unabridged) Lives of modern women

By Elaine Feinstein

Bessie Smith
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Blues singer Bessie Smith was born and raised in the slums of Chattanooga, Tennessee She sang of the ills at the heart of the black woman's life of their efforts to cope with betrayal and desertion Her life-long defiance of the white world found expression both in her extraordinary stage presence and in her uninhibited off-stage behaviour
Bessie Smith