Big Star Fallin' Mama: Five Women in Black Music by Hettie Jones
Big Star Fallin' Mama: Five Women in Black Music

Hettie Jones

Big Star Fallin' Mama: Five Women in Black Music

Hettie Jones

147 pages first pub 1974 (editions)

biography history challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
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Portraits of five Black women and the kind of music they sang during a period of social change; includes Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Mahalia Jackson, Billie Holiday, and Aretha Franklin.

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