Big star fallin' mama
by Hettie Jones
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Portraits of five black women and the kind of music they sang during a period of social change. Includes Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Mahalia Jackson, Billie Holiday, and Aretha Franklin.
African American women musiciansAfrican AmericansBiographyBlues (Music)History and criticismJuvenile literatureMusiciansAfrican american musiciansMusicians, united statesAfrican americans, biographySmith, bessie, 1898-1937Jackson, mahalia, 1911-1972