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Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters

Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters

Hardcover

Series: Music Matters

Biographies GeneralBlues & SoulGeneral Music

Publisher Price: $24.95

ISBN10: 1477321187
ISBN13: 9781477321188
Publisher: Univ Of Texas Pr
Published: Sep 12 2023
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.34 Depth: 8.34
Language: English

Finalist, 2024 Lesbian Memoir/Biography, Lambda Literary Award for Arts and Culture
Winner -- Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award, 45th Annual American Book Awards, Before Columbus Foundation

A queer, Black biography in essays about the performer who gave us Hound Dog, Ball and Chain, and other songs that changed the course of American music.

Born in Alabama in 1926, raised in the church, appropriated by white performers, buried in an indigent's grave--Willie Mae Big Mama Thornton's life events epitomize the blues--but Lynnée Denise pushes past the stereotypes to read Thornton's life through a Black, queer, feminist lens and reveal an artist who was an innovator across her four-decade-long career.

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