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Author Wilson, August, author.

Title Ma Rainey's black bottom : a play in two acts / by August Wilson.

Edition First Plume move tie-in edition.
Publication Info. New York : Plume, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2020
©1985
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2058178~S1
Location Call No. Status
 95th Street Adult Nonfiction  812.54 WIL    AVAILABLE
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Description 111 pages ; 21 cm
Note "Netflix ; a Netflix film" -- Cover.
Summary "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 the racism breeds, and of racial exploitation." -- Back cover.
Awards Winner of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for best play.
Subject Rainey, Ma, 1886-1939 -- Drama.
Blues musicians -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Drama.
African American women singers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Drama.
Sound -- Recording and reproducing -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Drama.
Sound studios -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Drama.
Sound recording industry -- United States -- Drama.
United States -- Race relations -- Drama.
Genre Historical drama.
ISBN 9780593184967
0593184963
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