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Fictional Blues: Narrative Self-Invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White By Kimberly Mack. University of Massachusetts Press, 2020.

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Fictional Blues: Narrative Self-Invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White By Kimberly Mack. University of Massachusetts Press, 2020.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2023

Lydia Warren*
Affiliation:
Fairmont State University, Fairmont, West Virginia, USA

Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for American Music

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