Jones, Hettie

Big star fallin' mama : five women in black music / Hettie Jones - New York : Viking Press, 1974 - 150 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Discography: p. 139-140 Bibliography: p. 137-138

Portraits of five black women and the kind of music they sang during a period of social change. Includes Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Mahalia Jackson, Billie Holiday, and Aretha Franklin.

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Afro--American women musicians--Juvenile literature
Blues (Music)--Juvenile literature