|aBlues empress in black Chattanooga :|bBessie Smith and the emerging urban South /|cMichelle R. Scott.
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|aUrbana :|bUniversity of Illinois Press,|cc2008.
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|axiii, 198 p. :|bill. ;|c24 cm.
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|aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [173]-191) and index.
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|aIntroduction: uncovering the life of a blues woman -- Beyond the contraband camps: Black Chattanooga from the Civil War to 1880 -- The freest town on the map: Black migration to new south Chattanooga -- The empress's playground: Bessie Smith and Black childhood in the urban South -- Life on Big Ninth Street: the emerging blues culture in Chattanooga -- An empress in vaudeville: Bessie Smith on the theater circuit.
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|aSmith, Bessie,|d1894-1937.
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|aSingers|zUnited States|vBiography.
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|aBlues (Music)|zTennessee|zChattanooga|xHistory and criticism.