{"product_id":"blues-legacies-and-black-feminism-first-edition-1998","title":"Blues Legacies and Black Feminism (First Edition, 1998)","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"804\" data-end=\"949\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"804\" data-end=\"824\"\u003eDAVIS, Angela Y.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem data-start=\"825\" data-end=\"917\"\u003eBlues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude \"Ma\" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday.\u003c\/em\u003e New York: Pantheon Books, 1998.\u003cspan aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"951\" data-end=\"978\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"951\" data-end=\"963\"\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e First Edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"980\" data-end=\"1437\"\u003eIn this landmark work of cultural criticism, Angela Y. Davis explores the lives and music of Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday, demonstrating how blues music became a powerful expression of Black women's lives, identity, resistance, and social history. Widely regarded as one of Davis's most important scholarly works, the book remains an essential text in African American studies, Black feminism, cultural history, music, and literary criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 data-section-id=\"hrykuu\" data-start=\"1439\" data-end=\"1451\"\u003eCondition\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1453\" data-end=\"1667\"\u003eOctavo. Original black cloth-backed blue paper-covered boards with silver lettering to the spine. Fine. Binding square and tight. Interior clean and unmarked. Top edge bears the ownership stamp of Everett Hoagland.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 data-section-id=\"psacik\" data-start=\"1669\" data-end=\"1682\"\u003eProvenance\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1684\" data-end=\"1905\"\u003eFrom the personal working library of \u003cstrong data-start=\"1721\" data-end=\"1753\"\u003eEverett Hoagland (1942–2025)\u003c\/strong\u003e, award-winning poet, educator, and the first Poet Laureate of New Bedford, Massachusetts. This copy retains Hoagland's ownership stamp on the top edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1907\" data-end=\"2298\"\u003eHoagland's poetry explored many of the same themes of African American history, music, identity, memory, and social justice examined in this volume. His work has been studied alongside that of Angela Davis within discussions of African American literature, Black cultural criticism, and the continuing legacy of the Black Arts Movement, making this a particularly meaningful provenance copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 data-section-id=\"t4wks3\" data-start=\"2300\" data-end=\"2344\"\u003eFrom the Everett Hoagland Working Library\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2346\" data-end=\"2872\" class=\"\"\u003eThis volume comes from the personal working library of \u003cstrong data-start=\"2401\" data-end=\"2433\"\u003eEverett Hoagland (1942–2025)\u003c\/strong\u003e—award-winning poet, educator, the first Poet Laureate of New Bedford, Massachusetts, and an important voice in late twentieth-century African American poetry. His library reflects decades of scholarship, teaching, and literary engagement with African American history, literature, jazz and blues, Black feminism, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Black Arts Movement. Individual provenance details specific to this copy are described above.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Debs Book Paradise","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44262290325684,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0511\/9279\/1220\/files\/angeladaviscoverandspine.jpg?v=1783375988","url":"https:\/\/debsbookparadise.com\/products\/blues-legacies-and-black-feminism-first-edition-1998","provider":"Debs Book Paradise","version":"1.0","type":"link"}