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Her most memorable songs were often about the harsh realities of life in the Deep South for poor blacks, including such classics as “C ... When the blues faded from popularity in the Thirties, the earthy Ma Rainey returned home to her Georgia hometown, where she ran two theaters until her death from a heart attack in 1939.
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It's a play that celebrates the blues, the struggle of African Americans to have their voice." As proof of that struggle, the obituary of the real-life Ma Rainey listed her profession as `housekeeping.' Layers of social power and hierarchy are illustrated by William Bloodgood's scenic design, with three levels for...
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Magazine article from: Hollins Critic ...biography, Mother of the Blues: A Study of Ma Rainey (1981), Sandra R. Lieb says: Ma Rainey's life symbolizes the confrontation between...poetry and the nervous rhythms of modern life.
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Ma Rainey: Recording Artist and Song Writer; Ma Rainey was 38 years old before she made her first recording. But when she did finally hit the studio, working for the Paramount label, the results were a high point in the history of the blues. ... Topic: Ma Rainey: notes on her life and career...
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Ma Rainey biography, including 4 pages of information on the life of Ma Rainey. ... Ma Rainey was born Gertrude Pridgett in Columbus, Georgia, on April 26, 1886, to minstrel troupers- ... In Black Pearls, Daphane Harrison praised Rainey as the first great blues stage singer: "The good-humored, rollicking Rainey loved life,
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www.bookrags.com/biography/ma-rainey/
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The event is a recording session of Ma Rainey, the real-life "mother of the blues." The rest is Wilson's imagination as he focuses on the four band members. They banter and speechify, reminisce and argue, and their voices and themes come together or bump against each other just like instruments.
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www.post-gazette.com/ae/20030312marainey0312fnp4.asp
www.post-gazette.com/ae/20030312marainey0312fnp4.asp
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Wilson’s setting for his play is a fictional Chicago recording studio in 1927. A white record producer and white music manager are trying to lay down some tracks of black singer Ma Rainey (the real life “Mother of the Blues” who recorded with Louis Armstrong and mentored Bessie Smith,
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newcitystage.com/2009/09/28/review-ma-raineys-black-bot...
newcitystage.com/2009/09/28/review-ma-raineys-black-bottomcourt-theatre/
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Review: OSF's 'Ma Rainey' is solid work ... A pragmatic man who wants to get it right, he keeps some reefer handy for attitude adjustment. Slow Drag (Frederick Charles Canada), the bassist, has spent years with Cutler. His idea of life is to have a good time.
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www.mailtribune.com/archive/2005/0405/life/stories/04li...
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