Watch "Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues" online
The full-length documentary, Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues, directed and produced by Christine Dall, is streaming free online through the month of March, in celebration of Women’s History Month. Here is the link:
http://www.newsreel.org/Wild-Women.htm
This 1989 58-minute documentary film “shows how the blues were born out of the economic and social transformation of African American life early in this century. It recaptures the lives and times of Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ida Cox, Alberta Hunter, Ethel Waters and the other legendary women who made the blues a vital part of American culture. The film brings together for the first time dozens of rare, classic renditions of the early blues.”
Here's a link to the California Newsreel homepage: http://newsreel.org. Take a moment to browse the other films they offer. Please support this company; they provide access to wonderful documentaries dealing with African and African American perspectives, global issues, multiculturalism, and more.
http://www.newsreel.org/Wild-Women.htm
This 1989 58-minute documentary film “shows how the blues were born out of the economic and social transformation of African American life early in this century. It recaptures the lives and times of Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ida Cox, Alberta Hunter, Ethel Waters and the other legendary women who made the blues a vital part of American culture. The film brings together for the first time dozens of rare, classic renditions of the early blues.”
Here's a link to the California Newsreel homepage: http://newsreel.org. Take a moment to browse the other films they offer. Please support this company; they provide access to wonderful documentaries dealing with African and African American perspectives, global issues, multiculturalism, and more.