Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059967-002
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Vocal Color in Blue

Abstract: Examining the influence of the blues shouter’s vocal sound on what became the Broadway belter’s technique, this chapter showcases a line of historical singing lessons, the contexts and moments in which singers taught particular songs to one another and in which vocal technique was also part of what was being transmitted. The reader is invited to listen for lessons in the first three decades of the twentieth century—lessons both acknowledged and disavowed—attended by Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, Sophie T… Show more

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