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Bessie Smith
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Bessie Smith
Her life & career as a blues performer; singing style.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages) |
9 sources |
2001
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"?Good mornin' blues, blues, how do you do, how do you doGood mornin' blues, blues, how do you do
Say I just come here to have a few words with you.?
(Bessie Smith, Jailhouse Blues)
The audience at Berlin's Schlosspark Theater was subdued the night of April 21, 1960. They had just seen the first performance in the world of playwright Edward Albee's "The Death of Bessie Smith," a one-act play that detailed, in eight stunning scenes, the tragic events of September 26, 1937 when Bessie Smith was severely injured in a car accident and was then refused medical treatment because of her color, at the all-white Mercy Hospital in Memphis.
The German theatre goers seized on this poignant bit of blatant .."
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