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  Wilson August : MA Rainey'S Black Bottom: MA Rainey's Black Bottom (Paperback) By (author) August Wilson

  

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  Short Description for Wilson August : MA Rainey'S Black BottomThe 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...
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  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Published: 25 April 1991
  • Format: Paperback 111 pages
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  • Categories: Plays, Playscripts | Literary Studies: General
  • ISBN 13: 9780452261136 ISBN 10: 0452261139
  • Sales rank: 175,230

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• 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.