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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: 1927
Hardcover
Series: August Wilson's Century Cycle, Book 3
20th Century United States HistoryBlack American StudiesPlays
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ISBN13: 9781559362993
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Published: Apr 1 2008
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.77 Depth: 8.69
Language: English
The time is 1927. The place is a run-down recording studio in Chicago. Ma Rainey, the legendary blues singer, is due to arrive with her entourage to cut new sides of old favorites. Waiting for her are her Black musician sidemen, the white owner of the record company, and her white manager. What goes down in the session to come is more than music. It is a riveting portrayal of black rage...of racism, of the self-hate that racism breeds, and of racial expression. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a play dealing with issues of race, art, religion and the historic exploitation of Black recording artists
The play is part of August Wilson's Century Cycle, his epic dramatization of the African American experience in the twentieth century.
This edition includes a Foreword by Frank Rich.
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