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Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters

Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters

  • Author: Denise, Lynnée
Denise uses shrewd music criticism and a Black, queer, feminist lens, to reintroduce Thornton as a performer who transcended gender norms . . . Denise’s thoughtful reimagination of Thornton’s... More…

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Contents

  • Introduction
  • Mothering the Blues
  • The Black South Matters
  • Sisters of the Dirty Blues
  • White Boy Magic and the Making of Genre
  • Grown Little Girls, Tomboy Women, and Black Radio
  • Don’t Ask Me No More about Elvis
  • California Love / California Dreamin’
  • Willie Mae inna England
  • Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine
  • Mixtapes, White Biographers, and Black Blues People
  • Saved by the Amazing Grace of Mahalia Jackson
  • A Jailed Sassy Mama
  • The ’80s Blackness of Willie Mae’s Blues
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Sources and References