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Scott, Michelle R.: Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South.(Book review)
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Scott, Michelle R.
Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South
Chicago: University of Illinois Press
215 pp., $25.00, ISBN 978-0-2520-7545-2
Publication Date: August 2008
Blues singer Bessie Smith (1892?1937) grew up in an African American section of Chattanooga, Tennessee, known as Blue Goose Hollow. Michelle R. Scott's book, Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South, is as much--if not more--the story of the Blue Goose and related African American communities ...
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