Copyright 1981 by
The University of Massachusetts Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Lieb, Sandra R.
Mother of the blues.
Includes bibliography and discography.
1. Rainey, Ma, 18861939. 2. Afro-American singers
Biography. I. Title.
ML420.R274L5 784.5'3'00924 [B]81-1168
ISBN 0-87023-394-7(pbk.)AACR2 |
Acknowledgment is made to the following publishers and individuals for permission to reprint previously published material.
Bonanza Books, a division of Crown Publishers, Inc., for material from American Negro Songs and Spirituals, ed. John W. Work, 1940, 1968 by Crown Publishers, Inc.; Chicago Defender, for material from national and city editions, 19231930; Corinth Books, for material from Al Young, "A Dance for Ma Rainey," from Dancing; poems, 1969 by Al Young;
Harper and Row, Publishers, Inc., for "Ma Rainey," 1932 by Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich, Inc., renewed 1960 by Sterling A. Brown (from The Collected Poems of Sterling A. Brown, 1980 by Sterling A. Brown);
Horizon Press, New York, and Cassell and Co., Ltd., London, for material from Paul Oliver, Blues Fell This Morning: The Meaning of the Blues, 1960 by Horizon Press, and Paul Oliver, Conversation with the Blues, 1965 by Horizon Press; Jazz Journal International, London, for material from Thomas Fulbright, ''Ma Rainey and I" (March 1956), and Norman Turner-Rowles, "The Paramount Wildcat" (March 1954);
Living Blues, for material from Jim and Amy O'Neal, "Living Blues Interview: Georgia Tom Dorsey'' (MarchApril 1975);
Melody Maker, London, for material from Vic Schuler and Claude Lipscombe, "Mystery of the Two Ma Raineys" (October 13, 1951);
Duncan Shiedt, Pittsboro, Indiana, for photograph of Ma Rainey;
Stein and Day Publishers, for material from Derrick Stewart-Baxter, Ma Rainey and the Classic Blues Singers, 1970 by Derrick Stewart-Baxter; and for material from Chris Albertson, Bessie, 1972 by Chris Albertson;
John Steiner for lyrics from Big Feeling Blues, Daddy Goodbye Blues, Deep Moaning Blues, Hear Me Talking to You, Leaving This Morning Blues, Little Low Mama Blues, Screech Owl Blues, Sissy Blues, Sleep Talking Blues, Sweet Rough Man, Tough Luck Blues, Trust No Man, Weepin' Woman Blues, 1956 by John Steiner.
Storyville Publications, Chigwell, Essex, U.K., for material from John Godrich and Robert M. W. Dixon, Blues and Gospel Records, 19021943 (3rd rev. ed.). |
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