Blues singer Bessie Smith’s “Backwater Blues” is often connected to the well-known Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, which devastated predominantly Black communities in Arkansas, Mississippi and ...
Bessie Smith. side 1: Backwater Blues; side 2: Them "Has Been" Blues (Hot Jazz Club of America HC 105). 78rpm. Side 1 was originally recorded in 1927 and released on Columbia 14195-D. Side 2 was ...
Down the line: blues brilliance, displacement, and living under the shadow of levees -- Burning waters rise: Richard Wright's Blues Voice and the double environmental burden of race -- Racialized ...
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