"Bye, Bye Baby": Race, bisexuality, and the blues in the music of Bessie Smith and Janis Joplin

Popular Music and Society

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 3-26

  Braziel, Jana Evans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

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EID: 61249712067     PISSN: 03007766     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0300776032000144896     Document Type: Article

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