Title
The blues muse : race, gender, and musical celebrity in American poetry / Emily Ruth Rutter.
ISBN
9780817391973 (electronic book)
0817391975 (electronic book)
9780817319946
0817319948
Published
Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2018]
Copyright
©2018
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Call Number
PS153.N5 R89 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
811.009/896073
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed September 26, 2018).
Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Blues Muse Tradition; 1. ""Don't Like My Ocean, Don t'Fish in My Sea"": Blues Muses, Racial Uplift, and Queer Camaraderie; 2. ""Never Was a White Man Had the Blues"": Blues Icons and Black Power; 3. ""I Ain't Gonna Marry, Ain't Gon' Settle Down"": Blues Women and Intersectionality; 4. ""Blues Falling Down Like Hail"": Blues Men and the Second-Wave Blues Revival; 5. ""It's Gonna Carry Me through This World"": The Post-Soul Blues Muse; Coda. Repetition with a Difference: Beyonce Knowles-Carter as Muse; Notes; Bibliography; Index