What a difference a day makes : African American women who conquered 1950s music /

What a difference a day makes : African American women who conquered 1950s music / Steve Bergsman ; foreword by Lillian Walker-Moss.

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"In What a Difference a Day Makes: Women Who Conquered 1950s Music, Steve Bergsman highlights the Black female artists of the 1950s, a time that predated the chart-topping girl groups of the early 1960s. Many of the singers of this era became wildly famous and respected, and even made it into t...

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Main Author: Bergsman, Steve (Author)
Other Authors: Walker-Moss, Lillian (writer of foreword.)
Other title:African American women who conquered 1950s music
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2023]
Series:American made music series.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Popular music > United States > 1951-1960 > History and criticism.
African Americans > Music > 20th century > History and criticism.
Girl groups (Musical groups) > United States > History > 20th century.
African American women singers.
Women singers > United States.
African American singers.
African Americans > Music.
Girl groups (Musical groups)
Popular music.
Women singers.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword by Lillian Walker-Moss
  • Introduction. Teardrops from my eyes
  • I wanna be loved (1950)
  • Smooth sailing (1951)
  • 5-10-15 hours (1952)
  • Hound dog (1953)
  • Teach me tonight (1954)
  • Tweedle Dee (1955)
  • Let the good times roll (1956)
  • Love is strange (1957)
  • Maybe (1958)
  • What a diff'rence a day makes (1959 and beyond) : The soloists
  • Sally go 'round the roses (1959 and beyond) : The groups
  • Selected discography.

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