THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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Smith was known as the “Queen of Country music”
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Smith wrote a series of articles about life as a black woman in the urban North.
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Smith is known as the “Empress of the Blues”
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Smith was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Known in her lifetime as the “Empress of the Blues, ” Smith was a bold, supremely confident artist who often disdained the use of a microphone and whose art expressed the frustrations and hopes of a whole generation of black Americans. She was known for her rich contralto voice and her breathtaking emotional intensity.
Detailed explanation-2: -At the height of her fame, blues singer Bessie Smith was really known as “the Empress.” So it was no joke when Romare Bearden titled his painting, Empress of the Blues.
Detailed explanation-3: -Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz Age. Nicknamed the “Empress of the Blues", she was the most popular female blues singer of the 1930s.
Detailed explanation-4: -’Backwater Blues’ In her recording career, Smith worked with many important jazz performers, such as saxophonist Sidney Bechet and pianists Fletcher Henderson and James P. Johnson. With Johnson, she recorded one of her most famous songs, “Backwater Blues."
Detailed explanation-5: -Bessie Smith (1894-1937): Classic blues singer known as the “Empress of the Blues” who developed her singing style in rough-and-tumble black vaudeville and tent shows and famously recorded W. C. Handy’s composition “St. Louis Blues” in 1925.