How Long to Read Blues Legacies and Black Feminism

How Long Does it Take to Read Blues Legacies and Black Feminism?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 51 minutes to read Blues Legacies and Black Feminism by Angela Y. Davis

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial black women blues singers through a feminist lens. Angela Davis provides the historical, social, and political contexts with which to reinterpret the performances and lyrics of Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday as powerful articulations of an alternative consciousness profoundly at odds with mainstream American culture. The works of Rainey, Smith, and Holiday have been largely misunderstood by critics. Overlooked, Davis shows, has been the way their candor and bravado laid the groundwork for an aesthetic that allowed for the celebration of social, moral, and sexual values outside the constraints imposed by middle-class respectability. Through meticulous transcriptions of all the extant lyrics of Rainey and Smith−published here in their entirety for the first time−Davis demonstrates how the roots of the blues extend beyond a musical tradition to serve as a conciousness-raising vehicle for American social memory. A stunning, indispensable contribution to American history, as boldly insightful as the women Davis praises, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism is a triumph.

How long is Blues Legacies and Black Feminism?

Blues Legacies and Black Feminism by Angela Y. Davis is 464 pages long, and a total of 117,856 words.

This makes it 157% the length of the average book. It also has 144% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Blues Legacies and Black Feminism Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 44 minutes to read Blues Legacies and Black Feminism aloud.

What Reading Level is Blues Legacies and Black Feminism?

Blues Legacies and Black Feminism is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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