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Name: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Full name: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Play

Author: August Wilson
Year: 1984
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Genres/categories:
Classic, Play
Culture: African-American

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ISBNs:
9780452261136
0452261139

Presents the script for a two-act play set in a Chicago recording studio in 1927 where African-American band members and blues singer Ma Rainey reveal the conflicted feelings they have about their status in the white man's world.

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