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ISBN: 1477321187

ISBN13: 9781477321188

Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters

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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 Lynn e Denise pushes past the stereotypes to read Thornton's life through a Black, queer, feminist...

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