The Blues Muse: Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry

ISBN-13: 9780817359942 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 228 str.

Emily Ruth Rutter

Opis

A critical analysis of the poetic representations and legacies of five landmark blues artists

Spis treści

• 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 Gonna 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: BeyoncÉ Knowles-Carter as Muse
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index