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Bessie
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Product Description: Considered by many to be the greatest blues singer of all time, Bessie Smith was also a successful vaudeville entertainer who became the highest paid African-American performer of the roaring twenties. This book—a revised and expanded edition of the classic biography of this extraordinary artist—debunks many of the myths that have circulated since her untimely death in 1937...read more
By Chris Albertson
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Hardcover:

9780300099027 | Rev exp edition (Yale Univ Pr, June 1, 2003), cover price $38.00 | About this edition: A biography of Bessie Smith, the great singer known as the "Empress of the Blues".

Paperback:

9780300107562 | Rev exp edition (Yale Univ Pr, June 15, 2005), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Considered by many to be the greatest blues singer of all time, Bessie Smith was also a successful vaudeville entertainer who became the highest paid African-American performer of the roaring twenties.
9780812817003 | Reissue edition (Scarborough House, August 1, 1985), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: The trials and tribulations of the blues singer's career as well as the controversy concerning her death are highlighted in this study based on published material and the reminiscences of her contemporaries

Bessie Smith: Empress of the Blues
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By Chris Albertson and Gunther Schuller
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Hardcover:

9780028700205 | Schirmer Reference, June 1, 1975, cover price $12.95

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