Words and Songs of Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, and Nina Simone: Sound Motion, Blues Spirit, and African Memory

ISBN-13: 9780415540810 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 278 str.

Bratcher, Melanie E.

Opis

Melanie E. Bratcher explores the relationship between three African American women's dance-art-music sensibilities within the context of a Pan African aesthetic.

O autorze

Melanie E. Bratcher is a native of Oklahoma and descendent of parents who experienced sharecropping, she is the first in her family to graduate college. As a singer, dancer and scholar, her most relevant publication entitled "Tribute" was performed at the University of Oklahoma where she is Assistant Professor of African & African American Studies.