Jeanette's Project
A Geneology of Blues and Jazz Women across Color Lines
Include Timeline
New Text
Methodology and Framework for project, background information, etc.
Include links to scholarly articles and monographs connected to Davis' Blues Legacies and Black Feminism
Lesser known classic blues women singers
Song transcriptions, archives, building from Davis' project
Biography
Links or originals?
archive
Music Samples of Essentials
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Original Blues Women:
Bessie Smith
Gertrude 'Ma" Rainey
Billie Holiday
Catalog
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Etta James
Aretha Franklin
Peggy Lee
Anita O'Day
Doris Day
Julie London
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appropriators?
set up
influene on genre
Ella Fitzgerald
Nina Simone
Dinah Washington
Lena Horne
Eartha Kitt
Sarah Vaughan
Need to figure out:
Classifications/Genres/Definitions/Standards
Songs that have been done and re-done...What is the impact?
Blue-eyed Soul
Diana Krall
Bonnie Raitt
Adele
Duffy
Amy Winehouse
Joss Stone
What might it mean that most blue-eyed soul artists who are female are from the UK and Canada? Most of the artists from the U.S. are male and from the 60s 70s and 80s.