T'Ain't Nobody's Bizness: Queer Blues Divas of the 1920s
Plot: The 1920s saw a revolution in technology, the advent of the recording industry, that created the first class of African-American women to sing their way to fame and fortune. Blues divas such as Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, and Alberta Hunter created and promoted a working-class vision of blues life that provided an alternative to the Victorian gentility of middle-class manners
Release Date:
Sunday, January 27 2013 12 years ago
Jewelle Gomez