Ma Rainey: The Mother of Blues
Deja Smit
April 28, 2021
The History of Blues Blues was made as a combination of the following genres: Jazz, Ragtime, Secular folk and Gospel music. It was created as
The History of Blues Blues was made as a combination of the following genres: Jazz, Ragtime, Secular folk and Gospel music. It was created as
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Many may have recently met Ma Rainey in Netflix’s new film, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” but the mother of blues has been on the folk-blues
“They hear it come out, but they don’t know how it got there. They don’t understand that’s life’s way of talking. You don’t sing to
WHO WAS “MA RAINEY”? Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, known as the “Mother of the Blues”, was the first entertainer to successfully bridge the divide between vaudeville