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Rainey, Ma
Pridgett, Gertrude
birth name
blues singer, composer, lyricist, vocals
| born: 26 Apr 1886 |
Columbus, Georgia / state, USA |
Source: 1 |
| died: 22 Dec 1939 |
Rome, Georgia / state, USA |
Source: 1 |
| died: ------------ |
Columbus, Georgia / state, USA |
Source: 2,3,4,5 |
| date of Variety obit: 10 Apr 1985 |
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Index
The above item is part of :
Larkin, Colin
The encyclopedia of popular music
Third edition
New York: Macmillan, 1998, 8 v.
Number of People : 43,747
Mancuso, Chuck
Popular music and the underground
Foundations of jazz, blues, country, and rock, 1900-1950
Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1996, 626 p.
Claghorn, Charles Eugene
Women composers and songwriters.
A concise biographical dictionary
Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 1996, 247 p.
Number of People : 994
African American composers
The above item is part of :
Horne, Aaron
Baker, David N.
Brass music of black composers : a bibliography
Compiled by Aaron Horne
Foreword by David N. Baker
Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996
[Index of Names]
The above item is part of :
Bloom, Ken
American song
The complete musical theater companion: 1877-1995. Volume 2: T-Z and indexes
Second edition
New York: Schirmer Books, 1996, 2093 p.
Number of People : 24,881
Walker-Hill, Helen S.
Music by black women composers
A bibliography of available scores
By Helen Walker-Hill
Chicago: Center for Black Music Research Columbia College, 1995, 110 p.
(Series: CBMR Monographs; 5)
Blues-Les incontournables
Turin: Citanes Jazz Productions, 1994, 237 p.
Monceaux, Morgan
Marsalis, Wynton
Jazz : my music, my people
By Morgan Monceaux
Foreword by Wynton Marsalis
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994, 64 p.
Sonnier, Austin M.
A guide to the blues : history, who's who, research sources
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1994, 287 p.
St. Pierre, Roger
The best of the blues : the essential CD guide
San Francisco: Collins Publishers, 1993, 144 p.
Grattan, Virginia L.
American women songwriters
A biographical dictionary
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1993, 279 p.
Debord, Brigitte
Herzhaft, Gerard
Encyclopedia of the blues
Translated by Brigitte Debord
Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1992, 513 p.
Larkin, Colin
The Guinness encyclopedia of popular music
Edited by Colin Larkin
Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Publishing, 1992, 4V p.
Number of People : 5,680
Billard, Francois
Jazz anthology (1918-1939)
Arniac, Jean-Pierre
Encyclopedie du blues
Photographies de Jean-Pierre Arniac
Barlow, William
Looking up at down
The emergence of blues culture
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989, 404 p.
Clarke, Donald
The Penguin encyclopedia of popular music
Edited by Donald Clarke
London: Viking, 1989, 1378 p.
Number of People : 4,498
Moll, Dieter
Das Buch des Blues
Konigswinter: Heel, 1989, 245 p.
Kernfeld, Barry Dean
The new Grove dictionary of jazz
Edited by Barry Kernfeld
London: Macmillan Press, 1988
Number of People : 3,377
Floyd, Samuel A. Jr.
Black music biography : an annotated bibliography
White Plains, New York: Kraus International Publications, 1987
Whitburn, Joel
Joel Whitburn's Pop memories 1890-1954
The history of American popular music compiled form America's popular music charts 1890-1954
Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc., 1986, 657 p.
Number of People : 1,376
Mellers, Wilfred Howard
Angels of the night
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986
Sadie, Stanley
Hitchcock, H. Wiley
The new Grove dictionary of American music
edited by H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie
New York, N.Y. : Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1986. 4 v.
Number of People : 3,993
Chilton, John
Simmen, John
Who's who of jazz : Storyville to Swing Street
Foreword by John Simmen
London: Macmillan, 1985, 175 p.
Number of People : 1,172
Placksin, Sally
Jazzwomen : 1900 to the present their words, lives, and music
London: Pluto Press, 1985
Pastonesi, Marco
Ma Rainey : La signora degli anelli.
Il Blues [Italy] no. 8 (September 1984) :4-6.
Discography : performers and groups
p. 307 In:
Dahl, Linda
Stormy Weather
The music and lives of a century of jazz women
By Linda Dahl
New York: Pantheon Books, 1984, 371 p.
Palmer, Robert
The Real Ma Rainey Had a Certain Way with the Blues.
New York Times, 28 October 1984, sec. 2, p. 6.
Handy, D. Antoinette
[Review]
The Black Perspective in Music. 11 (1983), S. 83-85.
Lieb, Sandra Robin
Mother of the Blues : Ma Rainey.
Black Perspective in Music 11, no. 1 (1983): 83-85.
McNeil, W.K.
[Review]
Western Folklore. 42 (1983), S. 321-322.
Linder, Lasse
Bluesens legender : Ma Rainey.
Jefferson [Sweden] no. 60 (Spring 1983):23.
Oliver, Paul
[Review]
Popular Music. 3 (1983), S. 329-331.
Lieb, Sandra Robin
Mother of the blues : a study of Ma Rainey.
[Amherst:] Univ. of Massachusetts Press 1981. XVII, 226 S.
Mit Ill.
Southern, Eileen
Biographical dictionary of Afro-American and African musicians
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1981, 478 p.
Number of People : 1,184
Lieb, Sandra Robin
Mother of the Blues. A Study of Ma Rainey
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1981. 226 p.
Lieb, Sandra Robin
Mother of the blues : a study of Ma Rainey.
[Amherst:] Univ. of Massachusetts Press 1981. XVII, 226 S.
Mit Ill.
Swartley, Ariel
Ladies Sing the Blues.
New York Times Magazine, 29 June 1980, p. 22-23, 35-56, 39, 48.
Index
The above item is part of :
Perry, Jeb H.
Variety obits. An index to obituaries in Variety, 1905-1978
Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1980, 311 p.
Number of People : 101,729
Sadie, Stanley
The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians
Number of People : 20,506
Robijns, Jozef
Zijlstra, Miep
Algemene muziek enciclopedie
hoofdred., J. Robijns en Miep Zijlstra
Haarlem: De Haan, [1979]-1984
Number of People : 16,262
Shore, Dinah
Simon, George Thomas
The best of the music makers. From Acuff to Ellington to Presley to Sinatra to Zappa and 279 more of the most popular performers of the last fifty years
By George T. Simon and friends
Foreword by Dinah Shore
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1979, 635 p.
Harris, Sheldon
Blues who's who
A biographical dictionary of blues singers
New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House, 1979, 775 p.
Number of People : 560
Harrison, Daphne Duval
Black Women in the Blues Tradition
p. 58-73 In:
Harley, Sharon
Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn
The Afro-American Woman : Struggles and Images
Edited by Sharon Harley and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn
Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1978.137 p.
Artists' Index
p. 1754-1845 In:
Rust, Brian
Jazz records 1897-1942
4th revised and enlarged edition
Vol. 2: Abe Lyman to Bob Zurke
New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House Publishers, 1978, 1996 p.
Number of People : 9,605
Bentley, John
I Remember Bessie : Art Hodes Plays Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
Jazz Report, vol. 9, no. 4, 1977. p. 12
Lieb, Sandra Robin
The Message of Ma Rainey's Blues
A Biographical and Critical Study of America's First Woman Blues Singers.
Berindei, Mihai
Dictionaire de jazz
Bucuresti: Editura Stiintifica si Enciclopedica, 1976, 289 p.
Number of People : 768
Lieb, Sandra Robin
The Message of Ma Rainey's Blues
A Biographical and Critical Study of America's First Woman Blues Singer.
Stanford. 1976. Ph.D. dissertation. 216p
Sundstrom, Einar
Morin, Gosta
Moberg, Carl-Allan
Sohlman's musiklexikon
2. rev. och utvidgade uppl.
Redaktion: Gosta Morin, Carl-Alan Moberg och Einar Sundstrom
Stockholm: Sohlman Forlag, 1975-1979, 5 v.
Number of People : 10,962
Chroniques des Disques : Ma Rainey.
Jazz Hot, no. 312, January 1975. p. 34
O'Neal, Jim
O'Neal, Amy
Living Blues Interview : Georgia Tom Dorsey.
Living Blues, no. 20, March-April 1975. p. 21-23
Kinkle, Roger D.
The complete encyclopedia of popular music and jazz, 1900-1950
New Rochelle, N. Y.: Arlington, 1974
Number of People : 2,098
Jones, Hettie
Big Star Fallin' Mama : Five Women in Black Music
New York: Viking Press, 1974, 127 p.
Claghorn, Charles Eugene
Biographical dictionary of American music
West Nyack, N.Y.: Parker Pub. Co., 1974, 491 p.
Number of People : 3,156
Rosner, Helmut
Bulling, Burchard
Frank, Paul
Noetzel, Florian
Kurzgefasstes Tonkunstler Lexikon
Fortfuhrt von Burchard Bulling, Florian Noetzel, Helmut Rosner
Wilhelmshaven: Heinrichshofen, 1974
Note: Zweiter Teil: Erganzungen und Erweiterungen seit 1937
Number of People : 16,276
Russell, H.
Master Drummer : Jesse Price.
Jazz & Blues, vol. 3, July 1973. p. 14-15
Record reviews : Queen of the Blues.
Journal of American Folklore, vol. 86, no. 342, 1973. p. 415
Stewart-Baxter, Derrick
Blues Digest.
Jazz Journal, vol. 26, July 1973. p. 22-23
Bogaert, Karel
Blues Lexicon : blues, Cajun, boogie woogie, gospel
Antwerp: Standaard Uitgeverij, 1971, 480 p.
Number of People : 556
Godrich, John
"Ma" Rainey.
Storyville [England] no. 35 (June/July 1971):173-75.
Bohlander, Carlo
Holler, Karl Heinz
Reclams Jazzfuhrer
Von Carlo Bohlander und Karl Heinz Holler
Stuttgart: Philipp Reclam, 1971, 991 p.
Number of People : 1,780
Godrich, John
Ma Rainey.
Storyville, vol. 35, June-July 1971. p. 173-175
Record reviews : Queen of the Blues
Vol. 3
Jazz Journal, vol. 24, December 1971. p. 37
Oh My Babe Blues : Ma Rainey's Georgia Jazz Band.
Jazz Report, vol. 7, no. 3, 1970. p. 12
Stewart-Baxter, Derrick
Ma Rainey and the classic blues singers
London: Studio Vista, 1970
Stewart-Baxter, Derrick
Ma Rainey and the Classic Blues Singers
New York: Stein and Day, 1970
Surge, Frank
Singers of the Blues
Rev.:
Jazz & Pop 8 (April/May 1969):75
Minneapolis: Lerner, 1969. 63 p.
Record reviews.
Jazz Journal, vol. 22, October 1969, p. 35
Record reviews.
down beat, vol. 36, December 25, 1969. p. 32
Williams, M.
Mostly Modernists.
Saturday Review, vol. 50, July 29, 1967. p. 25
Oliver, Paul
Ma Rainey was Here.
Jazz Monthly, vol. 11, March 1965. p. 21-23
Steiner, J.
Beyond the Impression.
Record Research, no. 67, April 1965. p. 11-12
McRae, Barry
The Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith Accompaniments
A Survey.
Jazz Journal [England] 14, no. 3 (March 1961):6-8.
McRae, B.
The Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith Accompaniments.
Jazz Journal, vol. 14, March 1961. p. 6-8
Feather, Leonard
Goodman, Benny
Hammond, John
Ellington, Duke
The new edition of the encyclopedia of jazz
Completely revised, enlarged and brought up to date
Appreciations by Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and John Hammond
New York: Horizon Press, 1960
Number of People : 1,945
Fulbright, T.
Ma Rainey and I.
Jazz Journal, vol. 9, March 1956. p. 1-2
Smith, C.E.
Ma Rainey and the Minstrels.
Record Changer, vol. 14, no. 6, 1955. p. 5-6
Smith, Charles Edward
Ma Rainey and the Minstrels.
Record Changer 14 (1955):5-6.
Turner-Towles, N.
The Paramount Wildcat.
Jazz Journal, vol. 7, March 1954. p. 2-3
Wiedemann, Erik
Jorgensen, John
Jazzens hvem-hv ad-hvor
Redaktorer: John Jorgensen og Erik Wiedemann
Copenhagen: Politikens forlag, 1953, 391 p.
Number of People : 688
Schuler, V.
The Mystery of the Two Ma Raineys.
Melody Maker, vol. 27, October 13, 1951. p. 9
Moberg, Carl-Allan
Sundstrom, Einar
Sohlman's musiklexikon : nordiskt och allmant upplagsverk for tonkonst, musikliv och dans
Redaktion: Gosta Morin, Carl Allan Moberg [och] Einar Sundstrom
Stockholm: Sohlman Forlag, [1951-]
Number of People : 8,662
Smith, C.E.
The Making of a King.
Record Changer, vol. 9, July-August 1950. p. 19-21
Traill, Sinclair
Jazz on Brunswick 04516.
Melody Maker, vol. 26, July 15, 1950. p. 9
Jones, M.
She Jest Catch Hold of Us.
Melody Maker, vol. 25, September 24, 1949. p. 5
Bruynoghe, Yannick
Gertrude "Ma" Rainey.
Hot Club Magazine [Belgium] 7 (July 1946):14.
Miller, Paul Eduard
Miller's yearbook of popular music
Chicago: Pem Publications, 1943, 195 p.
Number of People : 573
Pridgett, Thomas
The Life of Ma Rainey.
Jazz Information 2, no. 4 (6 September 1940):8.
Love, William C.
Ma Rainey Discography.
Jazz Information 2, no. 4 (6 September 1940):9-14.
Calt, Stephen
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Albertson, Chris
Oh My Babe Blues : Ma Rainey and her Georgia Jazz Band.
Vol. 2
Smith, Charles Edward
Notable American Women 1607-1950
A Biographical Dictionary
Cohn, Lawrence
Blues the World Forgot : Ma Rainey and her Georgia Jazz Band 1924-28
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