How Queer!: Bulldykes and the Blues (1920s-1950s) – Ma Rainey

Ma Rainey - part one of my University of Iowa senior Social Justice capstone, How Queer!: An Anthology of Gender and Sexual Expression Through Music and Performance Since 1900.

Sources:

Hammer, K. Allison. “‘Just Like a Natural Man’: The B.D. Styles of Gertrude ‘Ma’ Rainey and Bessie Smith.” Journal of Lesbian Studies, 30 Jan. 2019, pp. 279–293.

Rainey, Ma. Bo-Weavil Blues, H.C. Spier, 14 June 1929.

Rainey, Ma. Prove It on Me Blues, 1928.