-Caveat Lector-
June,
A bio this short is not expected to be all inclusive. I am told "Bessie" by
Chris Albertson is the definitive work on her. As for this being a
revisionist one, it is basically in keeping with everything I have ever
read. If you have any info at all on the subject to which the biographers
are not privy, please post it by all means. Not only would I love to read
it but I will hand-carry it to the curator as I drive by at least weekly.
She may well have had dysfunctional relationships and that is implied by
that bio. In fact, given her personality, I'd think most of her
relationships would have been at least unusual. As for an abusive one,
probably, maybe more than one, but like Tina Turner, it is not that for
which her personality will be remembered. She was very remarkable for a
woman of that time in her independence and free spirit. And I was posting
from the perspective of every subject having the race card played on it
instead of her personal affairs of which there seemed to be many.
Note that even the briefest of bios usually give more than necessary details
of her death as even at that time there was an attempt at fabrication of a
race card element being played in reports that she was denied treatment at a
hospital, a fact refuted conclusively. The severity of her injuries did not
allow for that to have even been possible but people will try these things.
So, no I do not claim this is a superb bio, just what I had at hand and
cannot post Albertson's. But do send any further info. I have always found
her fascinating. We have a Bessie Smith Strut Day where she is commemorated
and her music played to dancing in the streets, barbecue to die for and
great fun annually in downtown Chattanooga. Most of my knowledge of her
comes from the museum for which her family and friends descendants supplied
the info but I always want to know more.
Amelia
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ynr Chyldz Wyld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 6:35 AM
Subject: Re: [CTRL] Bessie Smith
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> A very revisionist bio, which pointedly ignores describing any of Smith's
personal relationships,
> relationships which could be described as dysfunctional at best, and at
least one was quite physically and
> emotionally abusive to Smith...
>
>
> June
>
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