A Jailed Sassy Mama

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents xi
3. Introduction 1
4. Mothering The Blues 13
5. The Black South Matters 27
6. Sisters of the Dirty Blues 37
7. White Boy Magic and the Making of Genre 51
8. Grown Little Girls, Tomboy Women, and Black Radio 67
9. Don’t Ask Me No More about Elvis 81
10. California Love / California Dreamin’ 97
11. Willie Mae inna England 109
12. Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine 125
13. Mixtapes, White Biographers, and Black Blues People 139
14. Saved by the Amazing Grace of Mahalia Jackson 151
15. A Jailed Sassy Mama 165
16. The ’80s Blackness of Willie Mae’s Blues 181
17. Epilogue 197
18. Acknowledgments 199
19. Sources and References 203