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

Big StarFfallin' Mama: Five Women in Black Music

Hettie Jones

160 pages first pub 1974 (editions)

biography history 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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