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Ma Rainey's black bottom

  • August Wilson

4.00

5 ratings

Presents the script for a two-act play set in a Chicago recording studio in 1927 where African-American band members and blues singer Ma Rainey reveal the conflicted feelings they have about their status in the white man's world.

Genres

  • African Americans
  • Blues musicians
  • Drama
  • Musicians
  • Nineteen twenties
  • Blues (Music)
  • Racism
  • Librettos
  • Musicals
  • American Blues singers
  • American drama
  • African American authors
  • Race relations
  • American drama (dramatic works by one author)
  • Rainey, ma , 1886-1939
  • Blues musicians--illinois--chicago--drama
  • African american women singers
  • African american women singers--illinois--chicago--drama
  • Sound--recording and reproducing
  • Sound--recording and reproducing--illinois--chicago--drama
  • Sound studios
  • Sound studios--illinois--chicago--drama
  • Sound recording industry
  • Sound recording industry--united states--drama
  • Nineteen twenties--drama
  • Ps3573.i45677 m3 1985c
  • History
  • Sound
  • Recording and reproducing
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About the author

  • August Wilson

    1945 - 2005

    3.68

    22 ratings · 31 works

Editions

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    Plume

    Dec 22, 2020

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    French

    1985

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    Theatre Communications Group

    September 2007

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    Tandem Library

    October 2001

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Plume

1985

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    1st electronic ed.

    Alexander Street Press

    2004

  • Edition cover

    New York, New American Library (1985).

    1985-01-01

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    1st ed.

    Theatre Communications Group, Distributed to the book trade by Consortium

    2007

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    New American Library

    1985

  • Edition cover

    New American Library

    1985

  • Edition cover

    New American Library

    1985