TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mack,Kimberly
TI  - Fictional blues: narrative self-invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White 
T2  - African American intellectual history
SN  - 9781613767955
AV  - ML3521 .M23 2020e
U1  - 781.64309 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Amherst
PB  - University of Massachusetts Press
KW  - Blues (Music)
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Blues musicians
KW  - United States
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Folklore
KW  - Music and folklore
KW  - Noirs américains
KW  - Musique et folklore
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The narrative blues tradition : tall tales, myths, and Black American folklore -- Shug, Big Mama, and Amy : autobiographical fictions and addictions -- "I was astounded at what I heard" : Robert Johnson's autobiographical and biographical afterlives -- From John Anthony Gillis to Jack White : a study in blues self-invention -- The blues apprenticeship : racialized conventions of the acolyte
N2  - "The familiar story of Delta blues musician Robert Johnson, who sold his soul to the devil at a Mississippi crossroads in exchange for guitar virtuosity, and the violent stereotypes evoked by legendary blues "bad men" like Stagger Lee undergird the persistent racial myths surrounding "authentic" blues expression. Fictional Blues unpacks the figure of the American blues performer, moving from early singers such as Ma Rainey and Big Mama Thornton to contemporary musicians such as Amy Winehouse, Rhiannon Giddens, and Jack White to reveal that blues makers have long used their songs, performances, interviews, and writings to invent personas that resist racial, social, economic, and gendered oppression. Using examples of fictional and real-life blues artists culled from popular music and literary works from writers such as Walter Mosley, Alice Walker, and Sherman Alexie, Kimberly Mack demonstrates that the stories blues musicians construct about their lives (however factually slippery) are inextricably linked to the "primary story" of the narrative blues tradition, in which autobiography fuels musicians' reclamation of power and agency"--
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