The blues muse : race, gender, and musical celebrity in American poetry / Emily Ruth Rutter.

Author: Rutter, Emily Ruth, author.

ImprintTuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, [2018]

Descriptionx, 215 pages ; 24 cm

Note:Introduction : The Blues Muse Tradition -- "Don't Like My Ocean, Don't Fish in My Sea" : Blues Muses, Racial Uplift, and Queer Camaraderie -- "Never Was a White Man Had the Blues" : Blues Icons and Black Power -- "I Ain't Gonna Marry, Ain't Gon' Settle Down" : Blues Women and Intersectionality -- "Blues Falling Down Like Hail" : Blues Men and the Second-Wave Blues Revival -- "It's Gonna Carry Me through This World" : The Post-Soul Blues Muse -- Coda. Repetition with a Difference : Beyoncé Knowles-Carter as Muse.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-206) and index.

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