From the very beginning, the blues has had a close connection with
the LGBTQ community. There is a long and decorated history of
so-called 'dirty blues' songs, stretching back beyond the earliest
attempts to capture the blues on record. The 1920s and 30s saw the
release of dozens of raunchy, bawdy blues recordings aimed at a
knowing LGBTQ audience. Queer Blues tells the story of the
pioneering LGBTQ composers and entertainers that wrote, performed
and recorded these wonderfully outlandish, life-affirming songs and
chronicles, including: Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Josephine Baker to
Frankie 'Half-Pint' Jaxon and many more. This is the definitive
account of the LGBTQ trailblazers of early blues and a fascinating
consideration of the intersection between music and LGBTQ history,
from the award-winning Darryl W. Bullock.
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