Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
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title:
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
text:
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a 1982 play – one of the ten-play Century Cycle by August Wilson – that chronicles the 20th-century African-American experience. The play is set in a recording studio in 1920s Chicago, and deals with issues of race, art, religion, and the historic exploitation of black recording artists by white producers. The play's title comes from Ma Rainey's song of the same name, which refers to the Black Bottom dance. Rainey, whose life as a well-known blues-singer of the 1920s
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description:
1982 play by August Wilson
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Rainey%27s_Black_Bottom
date created:
2005-10-21T23:13:30Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T22:54:12Z
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