Angels of the night : popular female singers of our time / Wilfrid Mellers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mellers, Wilfrid, 1914-2008.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women singers--United States--Biography.

Women singers.

United States.

Popular music--United States--History and criticism.

Popular music.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

x, 277 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 24 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Distribution:

Oxford : Basil Blackwell Ltd.

Place of Publication:

New York : Basil Blackwell Inc., 1986.

Contents:

I. Black Women as Earth Goddesses in Church, Bar, Brothel and Club. 1. Gospel Women, Eden and the Promised Land; 2. The Rockbottom Reality of the Blues; 3. From Tent Show to Cabaret: The Word and the Horn; 4. Soul, Motown, and the Fusion of Sacred and Profane

II. White Women as Urban and Rural Survivors in the Industrial Wilderness. 5. The Jazz Singer as Little Girl Lost; 6. The Folksong Revival and the Real Right Things; 7. Women and the Country Music Industry

III. Not from Adam's Rib: Women as Singing Poet-Composers. 8. White Seagull, Black Highwaywoman, Red Squaw: Joni Mitchell; 9. The Midnight Baby and the Hollywooden Dream: Dory Previn; 10. Society's Child in Small Town and City; 11. Into the Global Village; 12. The Rough and the Tough; 13. Magic and Technology; 14. Deadend Kid and Androgyne

Afterword: Folk, Rock and Jazz in the Unisex Global Village.

Notes:

"First published 1986."

"Typeset in 11 on 12 pt Garamond ..."

"Jacket illustration: Billie Hollliday, 1944, and Grace Jones ..."

Includes discography (pages [259]-265) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained with price labels.

ISBN:

0631146962 :

OCLC:

12420051