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[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

FIRST LADIES OF BLUES & JAZZ MUSIC -- MOSTLY SINGERS & SONGWRITERS INSTEAD OF MUSOS.

NOTE: ^These ladies had to have been around musical instruments for their entire careers, so, why neither of them ever decided to give one a go is beyond me. They're all singers exclusively, every one.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on the various ladies of blues & jazz music, from oldest to youngest, and all illustrated by William Stout for his extensive (and definitive) "Legends of the Blues" portraits series.

Gertrude "MA" RAINEY (born Pridgett; April 26, 1886 – December 22, 1939)

LUCILLE BOGAN (born Lucile Anderson; April 1, 1897 – August 10, 1948)

ETHEL WATERS (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977), 2x

VICTORIA Regina SPIVEY (October 15, 1906 – October 3, 1976)

Mabel Louise Smith (May 1, 1924 – January 23, 1972), known professionally as "BIG MAYBELLE"

Sources: www.motherjones.com/media/2016/04/cartoon-portraits-of-blues-legends, Buds Art Books, Pinterest, various, etc...

#MaRainey #LucilleBogan #EthelWaters #VictoriaSpivey #BigMaybelle #Portraits #LegendsoftheBlues #LadiesoftheBlues #Blues #Jazz #Rhythm&Blues #Vocalist #Singer #SingerSongwriter #Bluesmusic #RhythmandBlues #JazzMusic #JazzAge #LegendsoftheBluesPortraits #Illustration #WilliamStout #Vintagestyle #Fashion #VintageIllustration #AmericanStyle #Blueswomen #1920s #1930s #1940s #1950s

[tanagause]

#MaRaineys Black Bottom

[cartermagazine]

Today In History

Gertrude “Ma” Rainey was born in Columbus, GA on this date April 26, 1886. Rainey was an influential blues singer and early blues recording artist.

Dubbed the “Mother of the Blues”, ‘Ma’ Rainey bridged earlier vaudeville and the authentic expression of southern blues, influencing a generation of blues singers.

‘Ma Rainey's Black Bottom’ is a 1982 play by Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson-which chronicles Ma Rainey and the 20th-century African-American experience. The play is set in a recording studio in 1920s Chicago, and deals with issues of race, art, religion, and the historic exploitation of Black recording artists by white producers.

The play has been converted into a film, “Ma Rainey's Black Bottom” directed by George C. Wolfe and written by Ruben Santiago-Hudson.

The film stars Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman, Glynn Turman, Colman Domingo, and Michael Potts. It’s streaming now on Netflix.

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[mrmceachin]

[rockmusicassoc]

#BluesHonorRoll Amazing Performers: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, singing during the first two decades of the twentieth century, Ma was known as the “Mother of the Blues”. She made 100s of recordings in the 1920s, influencing countless women in blues and rock. #MaRainey #RockHonorRoll #GreatWomenOfRock 3/16

[seshat-hekau]

Lord, I wonder what is it worryin' me? If it ain't my regular must be my used to be.

#BrokenHeartedBlues #MaRainey

[queenvlion]

🚨📣📢⚠️➡️ THE CATEGORY IS #BlackExcellence 👑🖤 AS WE CONTINUE TO CELEBRATE #PrideMonth 👑🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈 #LGBTQIA+ 👑🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 WE THANK YOU FOR BEING PIONEERS ACTIVISTS ENTERTAINERS TRAIL BLAZERS IN YOUR PERSPECTIVE FILEDS. #AndreLeonTalley 👑🕊 #MarshaPJohnson 👑🕊 #BessieSmith 👑🕊 #LucyHicks 👑🕊 #MaRainey 👑🕊 “As long there have been Black people there have been Black LGBTQ and Same Gender-Loving People”- Dr. David Johns 👑 #BlackLGBTQIA 👑🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽 #OurStories365 👑 #BlackStories365👑 📸(1,5 Getty Images 2- B.Vogue 3- AP 4- ACLU MISSISSIPPI)

#black lgbt #ourstories #pride month #lgbtqiia+ #lgbtq #blackexcellence #black history is world history #black history is american history

[stagemanagerssaygo]

It shows dedication to the time period when you make a wig out of horse hair.

"This was a Black woman traveling in the ‘20s, so who knew what salons are going to be in that town at the time? It’s not like women of color could walk into any hair salon. She needed that show wig and she needed to be show-ready. I think that’s why she would use that horsehair wig because of the memory, you could put it in a box and it would be ready."

#marainey

[toofaketobeplastic]

an ode to the (Black) geniuses of America

Do you know what the sunniest city in the world is? Yuma, fucking Arizona, homie. And i know that, for sure – as does the vast variety of Yale University motherfuckers i am acquainted with, everyone who’s been lucky for the past 22 years – because I was given found even in carceral America, something Holy, something Black, something about magic or calm in the midst of a curse – if you know Mo, you know more.

i am nothing without that basement in lawrance hall. nothing as sick as fuck at least, put every single acid trip on a reel. nothing neither without audre lorde, ma rainey, jimmy b’s here be dragons, introduced to me freshman fall by God’s mercy (and the gays)

who would i have been without it? gwen’s a kindness punk before it was ever cool, or seemed necessary: her smile welcomed me to America / didn’t ask me if Pakistan had roads, but always wanted to know if my mama was doing alright. every time i died, i waltzed to morse dining hall and so much of me hopes that the smiles i faked, exaggerated, performed in earnest, the tears i held back at times, the hurt i only shared with her, brought even a percentage of the light into gwen’s life that she, in that something Holy, something Black way, litters carelessly, constantly, democratically everywhere she goes.

the only two boys on Turtle Island who i left pieces of my heart with know who they are, half-Black, all Holy, at times confused but bite ‘em as much as u want America, you’ll never get em; behind Baldwin’s warning, a promise: here be angels.

no one dances in America like a Black femme does, no one fucked me in America with the kindness and the humanness i needed, everyone deserves, except a Black boy and no one pains, carries the burden of white people’s first world pathetic excuse for a life, like a Black body; i saw this with my own eyes, i saw the ICE truck at my border of Bedstuy and Bushwick i saw the young Black boy outside his high school, under a pig’s knee, with a whole crowd of loved ones gathered, not one able to save him, and he made the news too, but his Black life didn’t matter to white America who still bought their $5 capitalism juice from Starbucks loved their $900 lease in Brooklyn and the pigs who’d entertain their noise complaints.

my ode to the geniuses of America i witnessed was to leave, to let someone hear, anyone that the violence that makes America what it is is too harsh for me to bear,

and that there is another place i remember that i will always be your friend from, something to fly away from Amerikkka to, somewhere to come share your mind, and your heart, and your body in:

where it will be you and me, intertwined,

and only a memory of that other place – where everything cost too much and everything Black-owned wouldn’t last too long, co-opted by some California loser with borrowed guilt, stolen Blaccent, and superficial solidarity.

it is a dream i have, of you. 

#blm #poetry #pakistan #ode #geniuses #america #marainey #audrelorde #jamesbaldwin

[pearlistrippin]

🎙🎼CHASIN' DEM BLUES🎵🎙 Tech Week🤩. #ChasinDemBlues on deck again. Here we grow again🎭 Day 12😍 Nutritional herbal fasting and wow!!! Gratitude... Love and appreciate you so much, Unc👑💞🖤💞👑 https://www.milwaukeerep.com/Tickets--Events/201920-Season/Chasin-Dem-Blues-Untold-Story-of-Paramount-Records/ #Family #2020Memoirs #Theatre #Blues #Winter #MaRainey #AlbertaHunter #BlindLemonJefferson https://www.instagram.com/p/B7PjWuLp8uz/?igshid=1csd33vabhs1k

#chasindemblues #family #2020memoirs #theatre #blues #winter #marainey #albertahunter #blindlemonjefferson

[ilexproject]

Happy Birthday 🎁 Ma Rainey Reposted from @bbc_culture This is the real Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, who was immortalised in August Wilson’s play Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, and more recently, the George C Wolfe movie adaptation. She was one of the blues’ first hitmakers, who had been performing the blues for two decades before recording her first session at 37 in 1923. But, like many of the first wave of breakout blues artists, her legacy was pushed aside in favour of others. Tap the link in our bio to read the history of the black women who pioneered the blues, and why so many of them were forgotten. 📸 Getty Images. #BBCCulture #MaRainey #MaRaineysBlackBottom #blues #theblues #1920s #twenties #didyouknowthat #music history @i_lex_project https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc0uYVRg4ck/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#bbcculture #marainey #maraineysblackbottom #blues #theblues #1920s #twenties #didyouknowthat #music

[tymstevens]

✭✭✭✭ BEST MOVIES+TV: 2020 -  Best Movies, Docs, TV!

►https://tymstevens.blogspot.com/2021/03/best-movies-tv-2020.html

✭✭✭✭ BEST MOVIES+TV: 2020 -  Best Movies, Docs, TV!

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#StarWars #StarTrek #Mank #MaRainey #Borat #Minari #Tenet #Mulan #Mandalorian #WonderWoman #Soul #Fargo #CriterionChannel

[cartermagazine]

Today In History Gertrude “Ma” Rainey was born in Columbus, GA on this date April 26, 1886. Rainey was an influential blues singer and early blues recording artist. Dubbed the “Mother of the Blues”, ‘Ma’ Rainey bridged earlier vaudeville and the authentic expression of southern blues, influencing a generation of blues singers. CARTER™️ Magazine carter-mag.com #wherehistoryandhiphopmeet #historyandhiphop365 #cartermagazine #carter #maraineysblackbottom #marainey #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #history #staywoke https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc0EBhlLLvh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#wherehistoryandhiphopmeet #historyandhiphop365 #cartermagazine #carter #maraineysblackbottom #marainey #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #history #staywoke

[mediaartsrecordingsound]

Ma Rainey

(born Gertrude Pridgett, 26 April 1886 - 22 December 1939)

#marainey #theearlyyears #jazz #blues #music #quotes #encyclopedia #motheroftheblues #vocalist #classic #female #paramount #label #powerful #bessiesmith #jackdupree #madamerainey #lovieaustin #bluesserenaders #boweavilblues #barrelhouseblues #shaveemdryblues #georgiajazzband #seeseeriderblues #toadfrogblues #bluesohblues #maraineysblackbottom #yondercomestheblues #mountainjackblues #daddygoodbyeblues

[wtwnblog]

Still Got A Way To Go With Catching Up On Some Movies/ Tv Show’s That I Need To Watch. Just Watched ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Recently & The Film Was Very Good All Round, Wasn’t Disappointed At All!

#ma rainey's black bottom #Marainey #ma raineys black bottom chadwick boseman #viola davis #violadavisedit #chadwick boseman #chadwickbosemanedit

[olusheyi31]

Also to @tarrusrileyja @melaniatrump and #marainey https://www.instagram.com/p/COHz3ldrxOo/?igshid=1kvdvw93qrp0j

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