Ma Rainey's black bottom
Sound studios
Blues musicians
Nineteen twenties
Sound recording industry
Sound, recording and reproducing
Blues (Music)
Recording and reproducing
American drama (dramatic works by one author)
Librettos
Musicals
American drama
Sound
Musicians
African American authors
Racism
Race relations
Drama
African Americans
History
Presents the script for a two-act play set in a Chicago recording studio in 1927 where African-American band members and blues singer Ma Rainey reveal the conflicted feelings they have about their status in the white man's world.
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