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Staging the Blues: The Ma Rainey Story
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:12:53
Publish Date: 2017-01-26 10:58:06
Description: Before film or even audio recordings, audiences across the south flocked to traveling tent shows for entertainment. Under these tents, female performers like Gertrude "Ma" Rainey helped invent and popularize a new type of music: the blues. Paige McGinley, author of Staging the Blues: From Tent Shows to Tourism, brings these elaborate performances to life and explains why they are so often forgotten.
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