Angels of the night : popular female singers of our time /
Wilfrid Mellers.
- Oxford : Blackwell, 1986.
- x, 277 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes list of sound recordings (pages 259-265) and index.
I. Black women as earth goddesses in church, bar, brothel and club: 1. Gospel women, Eden and the promised land: Arizone Dranes, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Mahalia Jackson, Aretha Franklin -- 2. The Rockbottom reality of the blues: Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ida Cox, Victoria Spivey, Sippie Wallace, Alberta Hunter, Helen Humes, Big Mama Thorntono, Dinah Washington -- 3. From tent show to cabaret: the word and the horn: Ruth Etting, Ethel Waters, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Carmen McCrae, Pearl Bailey, Abbey Lincoln, Betty Carter -- Soul, Motown, and the fusion of sacred and profane: Odetta, Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick, The Loving Sisters, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Diana Ross and the Supremes, The Pointer Sisters, Esther Phillips, Roberta Flack, Randy Crawford, Donna Summer, Deniece Williams, Angela Bofill -- II. White women as urban and rural survivors in the industrial wilderness: 5. The Jazz singer as little girl lost: Barbara Dane, Connie Boswell, Mildred Bailey, Anita O'Day, Chris Connor, Julie London, Blossom Dearie, Peggy Lee -- 6. The Folksong revival and the real right thingn: Jean Ritchie, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard, The McGarrigle Sisters -- 7. Women and the country music industry: Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, Lacy J. Dalton, Crystal Gayle, Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt -- III. Not from new Adam's rib: women as singing poet-composers: 8. White seagull, black highwaywoman, red squaw: Joni Mitchell -- 9. The Midnight baby and the hollywooden dream: Dory Previn -- 10. Society's child in small town and city: Carole King, Janis Ian, Carly Simon -- 11. Into the global village: Phoebe Snow, Melissa Manchester, Laura Nyro, Tania Maria -- 12. The Rough and the tough: Janis Joplin, Patti Smith, Grace Jones -- 13. Magic and technology: Kate Bush, Toyah Wilcox, Judie Tzuke, Annie Lennox and the Eurythmics, Sade Adu -- 14. Deadend kid and androgyne: Rickie Lee Jones, Laurie Anderson -- Folk, rock and jazz in the unisex global village.
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